[Pink Pegasus]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

In what way was she "forced"?

The story's quite vague tbh.

A harsh punishment that I feel they should step in to avoid but I can't think of how she was forced into doing it without at any point having the opportunity to get help.

If she agreed to do it in return for a wad of cash then she wasn't forced.

It says in the article that she was forced because her son's lives were being threatened.

It also says she was a working woman (a legal secretary) with no previous criminal convictions.
The other members only got jail sentences.

Former legal secretary Sandiford, who has no previous criminal convictions, was caught smuggling cocaine worth £1.6 million from Thailand to Bali in 2012. Her sentence was upheld on appeal. She claims she was forced to act as a drugs mule by a syndicate who threatened the lives of her sons in England.
The other suspected syndicate members – Julian Ponder, 45, Paul Beales, 41, and Rachel Dougall, 41 – were sentenced to six years, four years and one year respectively.

Death sentence seems too harsh imo. Probably not much that can be done about it now though, considering that is their laws in that country. Why was she the only member of gang sentenced to death though?