Seems a bit harsh but don't smuggle drugs in/out of place where it's punishable by death. Very harsh on the Brazilian bloke who wasn't all there.

I wonder what we'll do with the Turks found smuggling £500m of cocaine into Scotland? (that's put a spanner in the SNP's planned celebrations!)

Optimistic as ever

I wouldn't have a clue whether those executed this week all did or didn't do exactly what they were executed for.

But, as another poster pointed out,a life sentence is hardly an easy stretch,so to the extent punishment is a deterrent (against the temptation for some of taking high risks in return for perceived "easy" money),a life sentence in Indonesia might be reasonably high as effective deterrents go and/or satisfy the desire to inflict strong punishment for involvement with drugs.

I do know not everyone who makes a "confession" for Court purposes has necessarily actually done the deed in question...history is littered with examples of that.As has also been said,once you're dead,you're dead and its no consolation if it later emerges you shouldn't have been found guilty.

People may feel the firing squad "is too good for this evil scum".I wonder if they also feel they should have a good prospect of having had a fair trial (including sentencing) first in a situation where punishment is meted out equally across the board,particularly if,heaven forbid and purely hypothetically for example,they ever found themselves arrested at an airport after someone had (unknown to them) planted drugs in their bags?If a person got none (or even not all) of these,would they definitely still be "scum" for whom the firing squad is too good?

The link below is IMO worth reading as a point of view (I can't say if contains any accuracy or not and no doubt others have suggested the opposite to be the case of what is suggested in the link) on some aspects of the approach to the law,getting the same outcome across the board, and drug-related matters in Indonesia.

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Edited by legaleagle (30 Apr 2015 11.40pm)

Nothing like ducking the point,Hoof!

Lets hope something like the below never happens to a member of your family..

Anyway,if it did,perhaps you'd just regard them as "scum" for whom the firing squad was too good...

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Edited by legaleagle (01 May 2015 10.23am)

I have mixed feelings about this. There's an element of you know the risks v the reward and if you get caught tough s*** deal with it.

However I do think people should by and large have the chance to redeem themselves.

I can't stand the bleating by those caught but firing squad?

Well,no one could say you don't live up to expectations

Touche'

Seriously I have a life to lead... and don't want to waste time reading fiction.