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While I don't think execution really fits the crime, and I would argue against it were that the case where I live, I don't live in Bali, and I don't know what its like there. From what I've read, they have a large drug problem, and right on the entrance visa it does say "Death to Drug Traffickers!" so I can't really say there wasn't sufficient warning. It's the law, when you travel to foreign countries, you have to follow the laws, no matter what the people in your home country think is right or wrong.
As for her not putting them them in her bag, c'mon people. It was 9 lbs of drugs, a bag of extremely high grade marijuana aproximately the size of a pillow! If someone doesn't notice that, I dunno what to say. Realisticly she should have immediately noticed her bag had something else in it, it was a soft sided board bag. If she honestly didn't know the drugs were there, don't you think she would have opened it right there and reported it to the police?
I'm glad she didn't get executed, but as for the jail time, I'm not sorry she got what she did. It seems to me that she would have to be really, really naive to have actually not known about it.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Leon Trotsky
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