Death Penalty on Drug Trafficking

Still about the Death penalty on drug trafficking issue... a friend in facebook posted a comment last night: "There are two sides to every story, look, injustice happened everywhere since the law is created by men - however it is there to serve a purpose ... we know it will never be perfect. We just need to believe it is for a greater good."

When I read that... I paused and went: "FOR A GREATER GOOD?? WHAAAATTTTT???"

But trying to be as constructive and objective as possible, this is my reply:

"this is why i (and hopefully more people) question, is death penalty for drug mules really for "a greater good."?? Killing the drug mules just make the drug kingpins smirk and say "meh, just another stupid staff get caught." To them the staff means NOTHING. There will be always people who are trapped in poverty, in drugs, who would take risk to be drug mules, to get out of their bad situation. These naive people, once rehabilitated, CAN BE very useful in anti-drug campaigns. If you kill them, will the drug abuse stop? No. Take a close look at the statistic,read, get informed, i hope you don't just assume and listen to unreliable news. As long as the users are there, there will always be drugs. Supply is there because there is demand. So where should we start? Start from home, and school. Parents, teachers, and most importantly, government, everyone must participate in educating their kids about the danger of drugs. If they still use drugs regardless, they may have mental problem, address this mental problem.

If people just believe in certain (and probably stupid) law and accept injustice, nothing is going to improve in this world. If nobody questions the injustice, to this day we will still ALL have stone-to-death penalty."

And should I go on with slavery, racism, feminism? What would the world be if we all believe in certain law and tolerate injustice? I still think the death penalty on drug trafficking (especially killing the drug mules, or to be precise: killing the drug mules who are unable to bribe the judge) is injustice, it's too harsh, and MOST IMPORTANTLY: it does NOT stop the MAIN problem: drug abuse. 

And the way the death penalty is conducted... is barbaric. How long did it take for them to die? The doctor took 27 mins to confirm all 8' death. The news reports: "Whether it was a long agonising death remains uncertain, More likely, it took that amount of time for Indonesian doctors to check each of the victims....Under Indonesian regulations, the commander of the firing squad will kill an execution victim with a bullet to the head if they don't die quickly at the hands of the 12-person firing squad." 

As I mentioned above, killing the drug mules just make the drug kingpins smirk and say "meh, just another stupid staff get caught." To them the staff means NOTHING. There will be always people who are trapped in poverty, in drugs, who would take risk to be drug mules, to get out of their bad situation. These naive people, once rehabilitated, CAN BE very useful for anti-drug campaigns. 

The fact that there are some prisoners selling and/or producing drugs INSIDE prison does not justify death penalty and does not answer the underlying problem of drug abuse. The prison system has gone horribly wrong as it no longer serves the main purpose of what prison is ACTUALLY for: to rehabilitate people.