INDONESIA

There's something more than slightly unsavoury about the recent executions in Indonesia. I understand the fact that the country has a very big drug problem, and that foreigners smuggling drugs make that problem bigger. However, killing a few people is not going to end that problem, as evidence from elsewhere in the world shows.

Ultimately, the death penalty is a moral issue; do you think it's OK that the state has the right to take someone's life? I think not.

Walter Blotscher