Death penalty for drug smuggler.

[Fly]

Discuss.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/british-grandmother-lindsay-sandiford-weeps-as-she-is-sentenced-to-death-by-indonesian-court-for-drug-trafficking-8461071.html

Surely if she knew she was facing the death sentence, she would have given the names of the people who she claimed were threatening to kill her family members. It's not like they had been kidnapped.

[chesterfieldchris]

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[Pete]

She must have moved within "certain circles" to get involved with big-time drug smugglers but I can believe the threats these smugglers used would frighten anyone to death.

But I don't believe in the death penalty and certainly not for people who haven't killed another person.

[Fly]

It also might prove hard to make an accusation that a death threat was issued. Her word against theirs.
Death sentence does seem a bit harsh though, but then, I'm not Indonesian.

[Pete]

The sanctity of human life should not be based upon nationality. The fact that many innocent people are executed each year should make the idea of capital punishment abhorent to any civilised nation. The Idi Amins and Robert Mugabes of this world are monsters and no right thinking person would want to be identified with them.

But then, there are so many evil people around the world - on both sides of situations, criminals that kill and bent authorities that use the death penalty to silence their critics.

[Fly]

At the end of the day, the law of the country you're in, must be respected. Good or bad.
Pity people want thugs to rule their countries, and back them !