Australians on Death Row Taken to Execution Island

Two Australian convicts have been transported to the prison island of Nusakambangan on Wednesday, ahead of their execution by firing squad for drug smuggling in Indonesia. Mark Kelly reports. Image: Getty

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[garymacmillan]

Smuggling drugs in the far east is never a good idea.

[dancorten]

The title is incredibly misleading because one assumes the the country of Australia has the death penalty.

[ndzcumy]

Australia used to be a prison island itself hahah

[roninnotasheeplikeyou.]

Welcome to Death Island! Where you can visit but never leave!

[gokutan]

People seem to be overlooking the fact that the Australian Federal Police informed the Indonesian authorities that nine Australian citizens were planning to smuggle drugs out of Indonesia. The AFP did not stop the couriers from leaving Australia on this mission, nor did they await the couriers (possible) return to Australia where they would have been arrested on drug importation charges. They dobbed their own citizens to the authority of  a country that has the death penalty for drug smuggling.

[BadDriversOfAugustaGeorgia]

Commit a crime that has death as a possible penalty.

Complain when that's what happens.

[elguapo]

Know the laws before entering another country. Gives you plenty of time to think 🤔 before doing something stupid. 😧

[garydurandt]

What part of Indonesia's policy that 'drug smugglers will be executed" that the drug smugglers don't get?

[margarethawinarto]

Never forget that those drug smugglers have killed millions of lives through addiction ; not to mention the ordeal that the families of the drug abusers have to go through.

[timohan]

If you smuggle drugs and get caught you don't have a right to complain about the punishment.

[Futile]

I thought Gordon Ramsay was talking this whole time

[johnstansak]

Australian PM revolted at prospect of legal capital punishment? He didn’t say he was revolted at prospect of millions of destroyed lives, overdose deaths, broken families, or tax dollars spent combating drugs. There is no moral high ground in the drug trade.

[tolitsdterrible]

I'm not an Indonesian but just respect the laws of all the countries in the world. It's harsh but it's the law in Indonesia. Respect it. End of the story.

[videomaniac]

Execution Island? Why can't we have something like that here in the US, with pay per view to help defray the costs.

[lusqwerty]

Good thing that Indonesia does not give into Australia's demand. Australia feels that its more powerful than Indonesia and its citizens are first class. Not only Australians, Europeans and America as well. Their government feels that they are first class citizen and even if their citizen commit a crime in a 3rd world country, they should not be punished by a 3rd world country.

[journeyer]

It's not like these two, and countless others, didn't know what the penalty is. They knew and were doing it regardless for the profit. Well, they gambled and lost, sayonara!

[Inatsikap]

When landing at these countries there are countless signs stating the death penalty for drug smuggling - The warning is also included on the Landing card!!

[thenightowl]

Because there is a rule that you absolutely cannot smuggle drugs in Indonesia and they broke their rule while they were there, there is nothing Australia can do! It’s literally a “sorry bro” moment. It’s the same as facing a drug penalty in any other country foreign to you, this one is just severe

[bralbal]

People enriching themselves over the misery of others should always be taken out of this world.

[Robinhood-flgp]

Only in Australia do drug dealers become national heroes