Govt unable to stop smuggler's execution
Time is running out for Nguyen Tuong Van, 25, who was sentenced to death for smuggling heroin and will be hanged within a month after the Singapore government rejected his plea for clemency. Nguyen was sentenced to death by a Singapore court in March last year after being found guilty to smuggling almost 400 grams of heroin from Cambodia via Singapore. Nguyen has said he was acting as a drug mule in a bid to pay off debts incurred by his twin brother. "My family is very close. He is my heart. If something happens to my son, my heart will be stopped." (mother)Oh please give me a break! If you got that much heroin surely you can sell it over here right? Go to a club find people who want a buzz and sell it for double what it is worth before they really felt like getting trashed. I mean what is a flight to Singapore going to knock you back a grand or two? Where did they get the extra money from to fly him over there? The mother musn't be that close to her family or she would have known that her son was in trouble. Correct me if I'm wrong but what kind of people find 400 grams of heroin to sell over-seas and then cannot get themselves out of debt? Heroin cant be that cheap you know....And if they were making it then couldn't they have just produced enough to pay off the debts?
Then the mother has the decency to plea to the Australian government help her son, so he can be given a lighter sentence! It's like by asking for the support from the government, Australians must only have a slap on the wrist policy when it comes to drugs. I'm sorry isn't trafficking and being in possession of un-prescribed drugs illegal here also? But we don't kill people, perhaps we should give harsher sanctions for anyone in possession or trafficking drugs then people will perhaps abide by the law. Don't people read the laws or at least understand what penalty they will face if they are found doing such stupid things? I say let them hang him, Singapore has every right to, he broke the law and should be punished and made an example of. You think this is harsh, couldn't he have done something else to get that money? What kind of a person has access to that much drugs anyway? And is a "good boy" as his mother claims he is.
"There is absolutely no reason why this decision can't be changed." said Mr Lasry, a man from the defendants legal team. Yes there is, why should Australians back people who go about things the wrong way. For once the Government has done something right and is not persisting on helping this man any further.
Mr Lasry predicted Singapore's decision would affect its relationship with Australia, given that extensive diplomatic efforts had been ignored. It should not be affected if Australia's thought about it logically, if anyone smuggled drugs into the country they would be given a trial (like the rest of the world, like the defendant) and justice would be served by a jury, equality and an opportunity to be judged by ones peers. That is more then fair. So I say, to bad, so sad watch your debts next time before you let you mother be left with one of two twins she origionally had.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=68148 (full article)
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