Hundreds mourn Australian executed in Indonesia

                                
An Australian executed in Indonesia on drugs charges was Saturday remembered as an artist whose paintings were powerful images created in the face of the death penalty. Myuran Sukumaran was shot dead by firing squad late last month after his pleas for clemency over his role in a syndicate smuggling heroin from the Indonesian island of Bali were rejected.
 Sukumaran and fellow Australian Andrew Chan, considered the ringleaders of the so-called Bali Nine drug smuggling group, spent a decade in prison before their execution on April 29. A funeral for Chan, 31, was held in Sydney on Friday. Both men were transformed by their experience in jail with Chan becoming a Christian pastor and Sukumaran studying art. Australia strongly opposes the death penalty and withdrew its ambassador to Indonesia for talks after Jakarta executed Chan and Sukumaran, along with five other foreigners and an Indonesian.