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Originally Posted by MTVN
It's a difficult one because they show absolutely no room for clemency with these men, who had apparently shown themselves as reformed characters while locked up, but then a couple like this can only get ten and eighteen years for murdering their relative and putting her in a suitcase. On the other hand I can understand that this is the decreed punishment for a crime that Indonesia is plagued by and that it'd be tricky to waver from their hardline stance now because they've been put under pressure from Australia. Six other men were executed as well this morning but they've been starved of the same level of attention. |
Good post - but Indonesian justice is no different to our own as far as inconsistencies go. From 'Street Crime' on TV; where one drunk who swears and kicks a policeman is wrestled to the ground by 4 cops, and fights them, only to be let go with a "telling off", while in the same program, another guy caught urinating in a quiet spot away from passers by, gets a £40.00 fine, to the huge variations in sentencing in our Crown Courts for every offence from Drug dealing to Murder.
The executed smugglers knew the risks.