BALI NINE
Bali Nine Execution Opinion Piece
The Bali Nine execution was a massive talk in the news. With Andrew Chan and Myurna Sukumaran charged with drug smuggling, were put in prison then ten years later executed in front of a firing squad. Yet did they deserve to die?
Two wrongs don’t make a right. These men didn’t take any lives, yes they were making a mistake by smuggling drugs but we have got to remember they didn’t kill anyone. Some may say that they were smuggling drugs and drugs kill people, but we have got to remember that the people who take drugs actually make that choice themselves.
Although Indonesia have the right to enforce their own law, this doesn’t mean that this is justice, it doesn’t mean that we should support these laws. For instance Australia has laws that people don’t agree with and people are always fight them. But when Australia tries to defend two of their own it is seen as wrong. When really they are just trying to fight for a fair and morally just trial.
During the time of the ten year trial Chan and Myurna spent time in prison trying to turn their lives around. They had changed their ways during their time spent in prison, Chan became an ordained Christian priest and Myurna became an talented artist. After all their efforts to rehabilitate into better people they still received the worst possible punishment.
Should they have finally executed them after ten years, after they had rehabilitated into better people? After all we are all human, we all make mistakes, and for these two there mistake cost them dearly, but was it to dear? Should this mistake have cost them their lives?
There is injustice everywhere whether that be when you are a child, adolescent or adult, whether it be with or without the law, there is always going to be injustice. The only way we will live in a just society is if we are all perfect, and we all know that is never going to happen.