INDONESIA: For many, he is the smiling face of radical Islam in Indonesia.
In front of the world's media just weeks after the Bali bombings, Amrozi caused outrage overseas when he told police of his delight at hearing about the worst terror act since the September 2001 strikes on the United States.
Yesterday, as he sat down to face his judges, he praised God and shouted "burn, burn the Jews". As the death sentence was passed he clenched his fists, punched the air in triumph and smiled broadly.
During his three-month trial, the fresh-faced self-confessed bomber continually laughed at Indonesian witnesses and said "whites" deserved to die.
Amrozi chuckled when he explained how he and the accused ground commander of the operation referred to a massive car bomb by its code name "dodol", an Indonesian sweet.
Yesterday, Amrozi was back in the spotlight as the first person to be sentenced in connection with the Bali blasts.
Prosecutors had demanded the death penalty. Amrozi (40) had been charged with helping to plot bombings that killed 202 people, about half of them Australian.
On June 12th, when asked how he felt about the impact of the Bali attack, Amrozi told the court: "There's some pride in my heart. For the white people, it serves them right." He said foreigners introduced decadence to the world's most populous Muslim nation through television and western lifestyles.
Usually wearing a black and white Muslim prayer cap and sporting a goatee beard, Amrozi had said he provided the van that became the car bomb that exploded outside the packed Sari Club. His composure had been too much for some Australian victims. On June 30th, as officials led him out of court, one Australian man whose son was killed in the blasts screamed at Amrozi, telling him he would die.
Although less prominent than others in the bomb plot, Amrozi became one of the best-known suspects and was the first arrested.
He is the younger brother of Mukhlas, who has been charged with having overall responsibility for the blasts and accused of being the operations chief of Jemaah Islamiah, the south-east Asian Muslim militant network blamed for the attacks. Amrozi's younger brother, Ali Imron, is also on trial.
But what most will remember about Amrozi was his behaviour at a strange public interrogation by Indonesia's police chief a month after the blasts where he laughed and showed delight at the atrocity. That sparked revulsion in Australia.