Oh he was definitely guilty. At one stage there was talk that he was just holding it for his brother, but either way, he definitely had about 396gm's of heroin strapped to his body. And that's how a lot of people are justifying it to themselves - he knew the crime, he knew the punishment, and therefore deserves no sympathy. Doesn't work like that for me though. I think of him being led to the gallows, his mother wailing in the background, the candle-lit vigil of human rights activists outside the prison, and I feel so small and sick and lost that I just don't care anymore what he did. This is their mandatory sentencing you see - drug trafficking is a capital offence. There was nothing to be done. Sad day for Australia, and the Nguyen family.:(
And that's how a lot of people are justifying it to themselves - he knew the crime, he knew the punishment, and therefore deserves no sympathy.
I definitely have sympathy for him and his family, absolutely. Obviously he made a big mistake and it's tragic that he's paying for it with his life. But I have to say, I do think that if you commit a crime, especially in a foreign country with different laws, you have to be prepared for the consequences. :/ Doesn't make it less sad, though.
Yeah, I guess it's just the fact that "one of our own" is being put to death, decades after Australia abandoned the death penalty. We're not used to this barbaric practice. And the sad thing is it really doesn't seem to deter the drug traffickers. Those stupid kids.:( Plus I'm just a huge wuss and I can't look at anything pragmatically.:-<<>
Ugh. We shall not speak of the PM going to the cricket that day...
I just don't get the utter lack of compassion most people seem to show. He did the crime he should do the time = bullshit. If our government had done everything in it's power to get clemency and then failed, I'd accept it. But they didn't :((
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And that's how a lot of people are justifying it to themselves - he knew the crime, he knew the punishment, and therefore deserves no sympathy.
Doesn't work like that for me though. I think of him being led to the gallows, his mother wailing in the background, the candle-lit vigil of human rights activists outside the prison, and I feel so small and sick and lost that I just don't care anymore what he did.
This is their mandatory sentencing you see - drug trafficking is a capital offence. There was nothing to be done.
Sad day for Australia, and the Nguyen family.:(
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I definitely have sympathy for him and his family, absolutely. Obviously he made a big mistake and it's tragic that he's paying for it with his life. But I have to say, I do think that if you commit a crime, especially in a foreign country with different laws, you have to be prepared for the consequences. :/ Doesn't make it less sad, though.
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And the sad thing is it really doesn't seem to deter the drug traffickers. Those stupid kids.:(
Plus I'm just a huge wuss and I can't look at anything pragmatically.:-<<>
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I just don't get the utter lack of compassion most people seem to show. He did the crime he should do the time = bullshit.
If our government had done everything in it's power to get clemency and then failed, I'd accept it. But they didn't :((
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I think it's some kind of Karma that his cricket game got rained out...
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