Eight drug smugglers - including seven foreigners - executed in Indonesia went to their deaths singing hymns and praying.
The men refused to wear blindfolds as they were put to death in a jungle clearing near the prison on the island of Nusakambangan in Central Java.
Family members held a vigil nearby and heard the shots as the two Australians, four Nigerians, a Brazilian and an Indonesian were killed.
"The good thing is all prisoners were executed together while praying and singing," Christina Widiantarti, a lawyer for the Brazilian convict and a witness to the execution, said.
"Before that they hugged each other, saying goodbye."
The hymns, among them Amazing Grace, were sung as the convicts were being tied to posts four metres apart.
"When they were being put on the cross for execution they were singing on the crosses and we were in a tent not too far away from the execution place trying to support them," Father Charlie Burrows told News Corp Australia.
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