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Not sure if you're aware or not that during these proceedings in fact 6 of the 'Bali 9' were sentenced to death, Chen, Rush, Nguyen and Norman as well as Chan and Sukumaran.
This death sentence for Chen, Nguyen and Norman was later reduced to life imprisonment by the Appeal Court Judges who decided to spare their lives. Rush later successfully appealed and his death sentence was reduced to life in prison.
I am not familiar with Indonesian customs but it seems that an appeal is treated almost as an insult to the Judges' ruling and can often result in a harsher sentence should the appeal have no merit.
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