Announced by the Jakarta Post

Announced by the Jakarta Post at 2:20 pm local. DENPASAR, Bali (Agencies): Imam Sumudra alias Abdul Azis, 33, was sentenced to death at the Denpasar district court at about 2.20 pm local time on Wednesday for masterminding the Bali bombings which killed 202 people last October. Samudra was found guilty of plotting, organizing and committing the October 12, 2002, bombing of two popular Bali nightspots previously boasted that he would welcome a death sentence as it would allow him into die a martyr. “We sentence the defendant…to the death penalty,” said chief judge Wayan Sugawa, saying Samudra had been proven guilty of all four charges against him. “Allahu Akbar!” (God is greatest) a defiant Samudra shouted three times in response, shaking his fist in the air. Good. One more on the way out.