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Originally Posted by BENT_8

To clarify my position, i dont condone what they did, nor do i excuse their ignorance of Indonesian law.
Hell, im not even against the death penalty in certain situations.

But were talking about a country that views drug exportation as a greater crime than terrorism and mass murder.

And when you think that over the last 15 years Australia has done so much to help Indonesia when they have faced tragedies.
They have no conscience.

Im not saying they should have walked free, they broke the law, but to execute 2 blokes who by all accounts had turned their lives around, who had worked hard to help others.
Some have said that every inmate finds God if it helps him out, and in some cases im sure that is true, but if being faced with a firing squad wasnt enough for these 2 to take it serious and actually make amends, then there is no hope for anyone to be rehabilitated.
To suggest that is to believe no one can change their ways, we might as well do away with prisons and shoot the lot.
Except the terrorists obviously, cut their sentence in half for a job well done.

But in reality nothing will come of this, Australia has a knack for sweeping things under the carpet.
A few months ago that bloke shot up the Lindt Cafe, sure we were all offended but within a week we dismissed terrorism, declared him a 'lone wolf' and moved on.
An islamic dude, claiming to have a bomb in his backpack, creates a hostage situation whilst displaying a flag associated with extremists and then kills 2 innocent people, but its not terrorism.
Not in Austraya.

Australians are weak as ****, too scared to offend anyone.

I 100% agree with most of this!!

There possibly is no consistency in their sentencing, but unfortunately our legal system is the same in that regard, except obviously we do not have a death penalty.

I also believe your last sentence is 100% spot on, and I think Australia needs to toughen up before we get over run.

Personally I do not believe in the death penalty myself, but I also believe in not interfering with other countries legal system and believes. Imagine if another country came here and tried to intimidate us into executing someone, just because it was done so in their country??

Even though I don't agree in the death penalty, in this case it is out of our hands and has nothing to do with us, and we should not be placing sanctions on other countries just because we don't agree with their rules and laws.