Indonesia to execute six drug offenders

[abaris]

My response to this is perversely mathematical. If you have a system where murderers are let out, like in the UK, then if the reoffend murder rate is higher than the innocently executed rate, then you save innocent lives by execution. Not easy to accurately get these numbers I know, and I haven't looked in detail to see how that would work out. That would be interesting.

It's fine to call me a heartless bastard, by the way. I can take it.

The problem is, you haven't looked at it at all. The UK as every other European country has a system in place where life actually can mean life. It's called preventive detention and if a person is considered too dangerous to be released, they end up there. Sometimes for more years, decades or until they die.

It's the same uninformed outrage that went with the Brejvik trial. Yes, on paper he got 21 years. That's the maximum sentence in Norway. But the message was there for everyone being really interested and didn't rely on tabloids only. Brejvik will never walk the streets again.

And honestly, I don't find any words for someone being comfortable with innocents being executed.