Inside the Bali Nine duo’s killing field

The lawyers for the Bali Nine duo on death row plan to appeal their latest failed legal challenge.

Death row ... Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the two ringleaders of the "Bali Nine" drug ring. Picture: AFP Source: Supplied

This is the most detailed view seen by the outside world of the firing range where the lives of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran and eight others will be taken.

The firing range, located behind a police station on the island of Nusakambangan, was inaugurated at a ceremony of police and prison authorities in November.

The event to open the range, replacing an older killing field on top of the prison island, was a matter of some pride. A banner was erected stating "Formal opening of firing range".

The range was given its own name, "Tunggul Panaluan", which refers to a magical wooden staff used by shaman of north Sumatra to ward off evil. The staffs were typically adorned with body parts taken from sacrificial victims.

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First look ... the police station with the firing range lit in the background behind it. The condemned people will be led through this building to the firing range behind. Source: Supplied

In a constantly changing and now confusing series of messages from the Indonesian government, Attorney-General HM Prasetyo said yesterday that 10 people would face the firing squad, rather than the originally scheduled 11.

And he said "we will do it soon".

Coffins arrive ... B Suhendroputro, a funeral director from Cilacap in south Java, has now taken delivery of 10 coffins. One is extra large, for a foreigner. Picture: Ardiles Rante Source: Supplied

Ten coffins have now arrived in Cilacap in readiness for the executions.

News Corp Australia revealed last week that a mortician in Cilacap, B. Suhendroputro, had taken delivery of three coffins.

Since then another seven have arrived. One is extra large, made to hold a big foreigner.

The firing range photo, taken at night, shows how it will be floodlit brightly for the executions to be conducted on the same site where five drug traffickers were shot dead after midnight on January 18.

It also shows the targets the Brimob firing squad use for practice. The round objects on the coloured target posts are set at the average height of a person's heart.

Revealed ... the most detailed inside look so far of the newly built firing range which was officially opened on Nusakambangan island on November 14. Source: Supplied

The victims will first be led through a doorway in the police station and through to the firing range.

Rough calculations from this photo and other corresponding views suggest the range is about 30m wide. Brimob regulations state the firing squads should take position between five and 10m from their targets.

The firing range is surrounded by block-work on two sides and an earthen wall to absorb rounds behind where the victims stand.

Holding up ... Andrew Chan inside Kerobokan Jail on Wednesday. Picture: Adam Taylor Source: News Corp Australia

Each victim will be provided their own 12-man firing squad, with only three shooters in each squad being issued with live rounds.

The firing range is located behind a police station down on the water on the prison island, well away from the high-security Batu prison where the condemned 11 will spend their final three days in isolation cells.

Staying strong ... Myuran Sukumaran inside Kerobokan Jail on Wednesday. Picture: Adam Taylor Source: News Corp Australia

The Australian lawyer for Chan and Sukumaran, Julian McMahon, made a short statement yesterday as his made his way into Kerobokan prison to see his clients.

"This case really is about humanity and humanity crosses borders, humanity is not constrained by sovereignty," Mr McMahon said.

"I am pleading with the President and the Attorney General to look at the humanity of this case, to look at the merits of this case of Sukumaran and Chan," he said.

Not giving up ... Australian lawyer Julian McMahon gives a statement as he arrives at Kerobokan Jail today. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro Source: Supplied

And their Indonesian lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis said he would not quit despite Tuesday's decision by the State Administrative Court to reject hearing a case that challenged President Joko Widodo's right to reject the clemency pleas without individual consideration.

"There is no way the Attorney General can ignore the legal process," said Mr Lubis. "He has to respect the legal process because Indonesia is a state based on law.

"If you don't respect the law what is the point of having a State based on the rule of law. As simple as that.

Legal support ... Indonesian lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis said he would not quit. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro Source: Supplied

"We still have hope, of course. I am still optimistic that we have a strong legal ground to challenge the rejection of the clemency. We did not file that if we didn't have a strong legal ground."

Authorities have said their preference was that all victims be executed simultaneously, though it is not clear whether the range could accommodate so many firing squads at the one time.

Prosecutors have consistently said they would be shot as soon as Nusakambangan was properly prepared. That involves building a brick wall in the Batu high-security prison to separate the main prison population from the death-row prisoners.

"If all the preparation have been completed, we will do it soon," said Mr Prasetyo. It is understood that wall is almost complete.

It is believed the revised execution list comprises three Nigerians, two Australians and one each from France, Ghana, Brazil, the Philippines and Indonesia.

Mr Suhendroputro — who washed, cleansed and dressed three bodies after the January 18 executions — will again be tasked with waiting in a makeshift mortuary tent, just near the firing range, to tend to bodies when they are brought to him after the executions.

He told News Corp that when he received the bodies, the entry wounds had already been stitched shut by a government medical officer at the scene where they fell.

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