Australian families unite on death row

The families of two Australian drug smugglers facing imminent execution in Indonesia visited them on Monday for the first time on a prison island where they are expected to be put to death.

Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, the ringleaders of the so-called "Bali Nine" drug trafficking gang, were sentenced to death in 2006 for trying to smuggle heroin out of Indonesia.

They recently lost their appeals for presidential clemency, typically the final chance to avoid the firing squad, and are to be executed soon with other foreigners convicted of drug trafficking offenses.