[Nedusa]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..in a way it's relevant Nedusa..one of the arguments is that she 'deserves' the death penalty because of the lives that would have been devastated/possibly lost if she had succeeded in smuggling them through...a member is proving the more positives and effectiveness of decriminalisation and linking the successes where other ways have been tried...

....it may be a bit of a sidetrack but to me it is all relevant to the extreme of this punishment and why it's a completely futile punishment..as well as being inhumane....

Yes I agree it has provided a bit more flesh on the debate and tried to provide some background context. I liked a post earlier from Jesus H Christ who said that if the death penalty worked as a deterrent against drug smugglers then no more drugs would have been smuggled after the first or the first few smugglers were executed. But this never happened and drug smuggling still goes on undeterred. Drug smugglers are usually desperate people carrying out this crime for a variety of reasons, some are in terrible debt some are blackmailed or threatened to carry out the offence. Having a one punishment fits all policy and making that punishment a mandatory death sentence is obsence and barbaric and has no place in the modern world.

It is wrong plain and simple and the Govts in these countries should have the full pressure of the international community brought to bear in an attempt to end this medieval practice ...!!

Originally Posted by Nedusa

Yes I agree it has provided a bit more flesh on the debate and tried to provide some background context. I liked a post earlier from Jesus H Christ who said that if the death penalty worked as a deterrent against drug smugglers then no more drugs would have been smuggled after the first or the first few smugglers were executed. But this never happened and drug smuggling still goes on undeterred. Drug smugglers are usually desperate people carrying out this crime for a variety of reasons, some are in terrible debt some are blackmailed or threatened to carry out the offence. Having a one punishment fits all policy and making that punishment a mandatory death sentence is obsence and barbaric and has no place in the modern world.

It is wrong plain and simple and the Govts in these countries should have the full pressure of the international community brought to bear in an attempt to end this medieval practice ...!!

The force is strong with this one.