Starving Pelican wrote:ricecakes wrote:I think it's a travesty that two young men who did everything they could to reform and atone for their sins over a ten year stretch were were ultimately executed .
I hope the next time Indonesia has a major crisis Australia sits back and watches their people suffer. No aid. Nada.
Oh of course they're "reformed". They went to church in prison and painted pictures. What else is there to do in an Indonesian prison? They were the ringleaders if a heroin smuggling operation.
If their deaths act as a
deterrent to other greedy criminals, then their deaths won't have been in vain.
by all accounts they were reformed because they changed the lives of other prisoners and did a whole lot of good whilst in prison etc...no need to minimize what is generally accepted including by the governor of the prison...
there is no evidence that capital punishment acts as a deterrent...i think that's been shown repeatedly...
Edit: in fact they destroyed the one thing that was making a positive difference to the problem of drugs in indonesia...how ironic is that...
what that tells me is that they don't give a fuck about drug problems in indonesia and that this is all about politics, particularly indonesian domestic politics...