INDEPENDENT senator Jacqui Lambie says Australia should bring back the death penalty for citizens who fight for terrorist organisations overseas.

Ms Lambie had previously called for citizenship to be revoked, but took it a step further this morning, calling for courts to have the ability to sentence terrorists returning to Australia to death.

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“I’m asking that everyone who assists any of the terrorists trying to take out our defence force personnel, that the death penalty be introduced,” she told Triple M Melbourne’s breakfast show on Friday.

“But that should be determined by the jury.

“I want to give them the option, for terrorism only.”

media_camera Awaiting execution ... Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Picture: AFP Photo / Jewel Samad

Her comments come just a few days after she called on the federal government to scrap foreign aid to “two-faced” Indonesia if Andrew Chan and Muyaran Sukumaran are executed.

Senator Lambie said Prime Minister Tony Abbott had to “put his foot down” and “pull the bloody foreign aid”.

“If you want to talk about executions we lost 88 people in the Bali bombs over there. And you know, those people that were part of that outfit are now walking out on the streets.

“I find Indonesia to be extremely two faced, in the way they’re going around doing things. They’re over in other countries begging for leniency for their own people on the death penalty, yet they’re about to take two of ours out.

media_camera Terrorism conviction overturned ... David Hicks fought alongside the Taliban and met Osama bin Laden. Picture: AAP Image/Nikki Short

“I’d ask Tony Abbott to put his foot down, start using a bit of manly influence, and see what he’s made of.

“Why the hell are we giving Indonesia $500 million? Why are we doing that? Nobody will answer my question. Pull the bloody foreign aid.”

Ms Lambie conceded there was little chance she would get the numbers to support her death penalty idea, Ms Lambie says it’s good to bring issues like this to the public’s attention.

Her statement comes just a day after Australian David Hicks was cleared of his terrorism conviction by an American military court, after spending more than five years as a prisoner at US Navy base Guantánamo Bay.

Originally published as ‘Bring back death penalty’: Lambie