Indonesia to execute six drug offenders

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The thing about the death penalty is you have to weigh up all the problems with not executing airtight murder cases:

1) If they are released or they escape, needless innocents may die.

2) The tax payer has to fund them being kept alive.

3) The prisons are fuller so that there's less room for other crimes and sentences end up being reduced artificially.

4) Another reason probably. Not at my best today.

I know it's far from clear cut, but I come down slightly on the side of the DP not as punishment, but to protect society from those who have proven unsafe to ever be in it.