Australian Bali Nine members Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan could be executed as early as next month after the Indonesian Attorney-General said there could be no second judicial review into their case.
The Bali Nine ringleaders, who were jailed for trying to smuggle heroin worth about $4 million into Australia, have been in Kerobokan jail since 2006.
Indonesia's attorney-general H.M. Prasetyo says the first round of executions, in which six drug offenders, including foreigners, went before a firing squad last week, are under evaluation.
He told Fairfax Media it was not yet decided if the Bali nine pair would be included in the second batch of executions.
Lawyers for the two Bali Nine said they would apply for a second judicial review into the men's cases, to argue that serious mistakes had been made by the judges in the first case review.
But Mr Prasetyo said there could only be one judicial review and that legal avenue had already been exhausted by the Bali nine in 2010. "There can only be one PK (judicial review) not two or three," he told Fairfax.
Victorian Supreme Court Justice Lex Lasry and barrister Julian McMahon visited the men at Kerobokan jail on Wednesday, along with family. The men's families and friends also saw them on Monday.
Musicians, celebrities and supporters are gathering in Sydney on Thursday night for the Music for Mercy vigil to plea for a stay of execution.
Archibald Prize-winning Australian artist Ben Quilty, who got to know the men in recent years, says the vigil is being held to send a message.
He says Sukumaran, 33, and Chan, 31 have been rehabilitated and are not the same men they once were. Actor David Wenham expects the vigil to be an uplifting community event.
"While there's still time, there's also a potential sliver of hope," Wenham said on Wednesday.
But Indonesian President Joko Widodo was unequivocal when he spoke to CNN on Tuesday.
Mr Joko said he would make "no compromise" on sending condemned drug dealers to the firing squad.
But Quilty has seen a more personal side of the Australians and has witnessed their transformation.
The artist tutored Sukumaran in Bali's Kerobokan prison, and says he is one of the best students he's ever had. He now counts him as a friend.
More than 20 Australian celebrities, including Alan Jones, Germaine Greer and Bryan Brown, have also appeared in a video calling for mercy. However, not all celebrities are on board with the campaign.TV and radio personality, Derryn Hinch, said the celebrities involved are hypocritical for only opposing the death penalty when it's used against Australians.
"If you're against the death penalty be against it for everybody," Hinch said.
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