Pending execution: what they said

QUOTES ON IMPENDING EXECUTION OF MYURAN SUKUMARAN AND ANDREW CHAN

"I don't want my son murdered. Please help" - Myuran's mother, Raji Sukumaran

"Executing these two young men will not solve the drug scourge in Indonesia" - Foreign Minister Julie Bishop

"Yesterday was definitely a farewell" - artist Ben Quilty

"We do not have blood on our hands" - Australian Federal Police deputy commissioner Graham Ashton

"What I'm asking for is mercy" - Opposition spokesperson Tanya Plibersek

"I find it incomprehensible that these people can't yield to pleas for clemency" - broadcaster Alan Jones

"They're their laws, we don't support them, we don't agree with them" - Education Minister Chris Pyne

"The death penalty is a barbaric punishment long proven to achieve absolutely nothing to deter or prevent crime" - Virgin CEO Richard Branson

"I stand for mercy" - Australian actors Asher Keddie, Claudia Karvan, Justine Clarke, Bryan Brown, David Wenham and Richard Roxbugh, musicians Missy Higgins and Megan Washington, and political commentators Alan Jones and Germaine Greer in an online video campaign

"The president is just not giving forgiveness, not giving any clemency" - Indonesian president Joko Widodo