Myuran Sukumaran’s death-row paintings cry out against a monstrous inhumanity

The prison paintings signed by Sukumaran and the Bali Nine, who are facing death by firing squad in Indonesia, show the moral evil of the death penalty

Art can howl from the abyss and give a face to the judicially murdered. Remember me, say Myuran Sukumaran’s paintings done while the 34-year-old has been on death row.

Sukumaran learned to paint as part of his rehabilitation in prison in Indonesia, while fighting a death sentence for drug smuggling. As he and the others known as the Bali Nine faced an imminent death by firing squad, his distraught family and supporters showed his last self-portraits and protest paintings.

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