Indonesia executes eight prisoners for drugs offences
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32501712
Eight convicted drug smugglers have been executed by firing squad in Indonesia.
The executions took place in Besi prison on the island of Nusakambangan early on Wednesday morning local time.
However, the execution of a ninth convict, a woman from the Philippines, was postponed at the last minute.
Filipina woman Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso was also due to be executed, but this was delayed after a request by the Philippine president, a spokesman from the attorney general's office told the BBC. The request came after someone suspected of framing Veloso to carry heroin into Indonesia surrendered to police in the Philippines, the spokesman went on. Indonesia would give Veloso the chance to testify as a witness in the trial in the Philippines, the spokesman said.
I am totally opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances, except maybe for people that think that Their/They're/There are interchangeable, but I have to say the arguments of both sides of this issue seem to be full of holes, which I suppose now offers a certain final irony to the whole sordid case. Despite the often wild exchange of broadsides it seems to me that most of both arguments missed the target, and in some ways, for better or worse it is better than leaving everybody hanging, which still strikes me as a more humane method anyways.
OTOH,
Having said that, let's all do everything we can to boycott anything and everything to do with Indonesia. Money talks when it walks.
I think it was the shameless hypocrisy that got me rolling there. 
