Andrew Chan will learn if he will receive the death penalty sentence later today. (Reuters)
Four more members of the Bali nine drug smuggling syndicate will hear their fate today.
Yesterday, drug couriers Renae Lawrence and Scott Rush were jailed for life.
Today, two fellow drug mules also face life sentences while the group's ringleaders could be handed the death penalty.
Andrew Chan, 22, and Myuran Sukumaran, 24, could become the first people to receive the death sentence from the Denpasar District Court for drug trafficking.
The pair have been accused of heading up the operation to smuggle heroin out of Bali to Australia last April.
Sukumaran has remained silent while Chan has pleaded his innocence.
Their lawyer, Mohammad Rifan, is confident.
"To be sure we will get the justice in our country," he said.
Martin Stephens and Michael Czugaj will also receive their verdicts today.
The prosecution is seeking life in prison for both drug mules.
The remaining three members of the Bali nine will have their verdicts handed down on Wednesday.
Sydneysiders Matthew Norman and Si Yi Chen and Tan Van Nguyen from Brisbane are all under the age of 24 and face the prospect of spending the rest of their lives in an Indonesian prison.
Diplomatic row looms
Donald Rothwell, a Professor of International Law at Sydney University, says the Australian Government will have a major diplomatic issue to address if death sentences are handed down.
"The Indonesian judicial system is one in which death sentences are often carried out very quickly," he said.
"So unlike the situation of Van Nguyen in Singapore, where an appeal process and a clemency process played out over quite some time, this may not be the situation in Bali."
He says the Australians can lodge appeals.
"Any of these decisions handed down by the Denpasar court are subject to appeal to the Bali Supreme Court and it eventually could go on to the Indonesian Court," he said.
"So there are a number of appeal processes any of the Australians can pursue."
Sentence 'too harsh'
Meanwhile, the lawyer for convicted drug smuggler, Renae Lawrence, says her client's life sentence is too harsh, given the assistance she gave authorities during the investigation.
Lawrence's sentence was a surprise as the prosecutors had asked for a 20-year sentence.
Lawrence's lawyer Anggia Browne says her client has been cooperative and was only a courier.
"My client was very cooperative and also I believe she was only a courier," she said.
"So this is our argument from the beginning but in the court during the trial the judge not see that."
The president of the Law Council of Australia, John North, has again attacked the way the Australian Federal Police (AFP) handled the case.
"Our Government does not assist other countries in cases where Australians face the prospect of death here," he said.
"The AFP, using their own guidelines, gave a great deal of assistance to the Balinese authorities in the Bali nine case."
Denpasar airport, where the nine were arrested
The ringleaders of the so-called Bali Nine were today sentenced to death by a Denpasar court. Andrew Chan received the news via translators at about 3:45 p.m. AEDT, and Myuran Sukumaran was sentenced at about 4:50 p.m. AEDT. The two were charged with attempting to smuggle 8.3 kg of heroin from Bali to Australia.

The Australian Federal Police have been criticised for allowing the Bali Nine to travel to Indonesia, where it was known they could face the death penalty. Yesterday two other drug mules, Renae Lawrence and Scott Rush, were sentenced to life imprisonment.

Prosecutors asked for the death penalty for both men. Chan was alleged to be the mastermind of the operation, and Myuran was alleged to be an enforcer. Chan, who claimed to have rediscovered his Christian faith, prayed for divine intervention prior to the sentence being handed down. Outside the court Indonesian protesters shouted "Death! Death!". Chan fell over after jostling with a media scrum,  and Sukumaran threw a bottle of water at the media.

Donald Rothwell, a Professor of International Law at the University of Sydney, has said that, unlike countries such as Singapore, it may not be long before the two are executed.

"The Indonesian judicial system is one in which death sentences are often carried out very quickly," he said.

"So unlike the situation of Van Nguyen in Singapore, where an appeal process and a clemency process played out over quite some time, this may not be the situation in Bali."

Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer told parliament today that he had made a direct request to the Indonesian government that the death penalty not be imposed. "On the 18th of December last year, I wrote to the Indonesian Attorney-General reminding him that the Australian Government was opposed to the death sentence and we didn't want to see, in the context of the Bali nine, any of the Australians sentenced to death," he said.

In Bali the death sentence is carried out by firing squad.