Hanged? Why hanged?

Should drug traffickers be hanged?

If they want to commit a crime in a country that they know has the death penalty for that crime, if caught, then they made that choice at the end of the day? No use crying cos it's all gone pear-shaped?

Should drug traffickers be hanged?

wonder how much Drugs went through while they intercepted the Small Fry!

Lol...reminded me of that teen that threw gum on the singaporean sidewalk...

Sidewalk?? Good grief woman, it's a pavement you mean? ha ha ha, only joking with you Pansy!

The whole case has sent a strong political message to Australia. Canberra has no business in telling the Indonesians how to conduct its Justice System, and it is somewhat hypocritical in light of the fact that the Aust. Federal Police provided information to the Indonesian authorities regarding the trafficking ring, which ultimately led to the arrests.

This is just another episode in the 'strained' relations between Australia and Indonesia.

Should drug traffickers be hanged?

Indonesia 16 Statutory Provisions = DEATH Sentence {shots to the chest/beheading}

The following is a list of the criminal offenses that carry the death penalty in Indonesia:

Attempt with intent to deprive the President or Vice-President of his or her life or liberty or to render him or her unfit to govern

Aiding or protecting Indonesia’s enemies at war

Fraud in delivery of military materials in time of war

Killing the head of state of a friendly state

Premeditated murder

Robbery or theft resulting in grave injury or death

Piracy resulting in death

Instigating or inciting rebellion or riot against a state defense company during times of war

Extortion with violence

Possession and misuse of firearm and/or other explosive

Criminal acts during air flights or against aviation infrastructure

Production, transit, import and possession of psychotropic drugs

Production, transit, import and possession of narcotics

Corruption under �certain circumstances,� including repeat offenders and corruption committed during times of national emergency/disaster

Gross violations of human rights, including genocide and crimes against humanity

Acts of terrorism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Indonesia

Method

Prisoners (particularly those convicted of murder, terrorism or drug trafficking offences) spend a long time languishing in prison before their sentence is finally carried out. Usually their final appeal has been exhausted through the courts and President. Prisoners and their families are notified 72 hours in advance of their pending execution. They are usually transferred to Nusa Kambangan island. They are woken up in the middle of the night and taken to a remote (and undisclosed) location and executed by firing squad. The method has not changed since 1964.

Capital punishment is carried out in Indonesia by a firing squad. The prisoner blindfolded is led to a grassy area where they have an option to sit or stand. The 12 armed executioners shoot the prisoner in the chest from a range of five to ten metres. Only three fire live bullets and the rest fire blanks. If the prisoner does not die, the Commander is required to issue a final bullet to the prisoner's head.

If one willfully chooses to break
the law, one should expect the possibility
of consequences.

This falls under 'natural selection'.
Whereas, a person's own actions
dictates their fate.


No sympathy for those who knowingly forsake
a future.


Thoughts and prayers for the decedents' families.

Tony Abbott Prime Minister of Australia
· April 28 at 5:51pm ·

The Australian Government deeply regrets the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

The Government had hoped that Indonesia would show mercy to these young men, who have worked hard since their arrests to rehabilitate themselves and improve the lives of other prisoners.

They committed a serious crime. Lengthy prison terms would have been an appropriate punishment.

In jail, Andrew Chan brought comfort and hope to others and Myuran Sukumaran shared his skills to give prisoners the chance of a better life. Our thoughts and prayers are with Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran'��s family and friends at this extremely difficult time.

Australia respects Indonesia’s sovereignty, but deeply regrets that Indonesia could not extend the mercy it so often seeks for its own citizens. We will withdraw our Ambassador for consultations once the men'��s bodies have been returned to the Chan and Sukumaran families.

Ministerial visits will remain suspended.

Well...that's the end of the 2 pending Auzzie's that were being held; I don't know if there are other's over there on death row...but I'd think that this would STOP ANY FURTHER attempts of those drug smugglers from traveling there!

But wasn't there a movie/by line/TV series about some American getting caught up in a drug ring but the stuff was planted in her luggage? Now I can't remember if I read about it or it was on some show?



Seems there were on 8 of the Bali 9 executed:

The guns were loaded. The coffins were open. Mary Jane Veloso was prepared to die.

Some of her family members waited in the “tent of grief” on Indonesia’s Nusakambangan Island. Others were on a bus to the country’s capital, Jakarta, to wait for Veloso’s body. Her children were asleep in a van parked along a road near “Execution Island” when, shortly after midnight, a news crew told her two young sons that she had been granted a temporary stay.

“My mama is alive! My mama is alive,” they shouted, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Veloso, 30, became the sole survivor — for now — of Wednesday’s executions. Eight people were put to death by a firing squad, including two ringleaders of the “Bali Nine,” a group of Australians convicted of smuggling heroin from Indonesia into Australia. “The executions have been successfully implemented, perfectly,” Indonesian Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo said, the Associated Press reported. “All worked, no misses.”
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She was the lady that I'd heard about; the maid that had traveled there for a job only to find out that it had been filled and when she tried to fly home the government confiscated her luggage and found drugs stuffed into her carry on!

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