Posted on 05/05/2015 9:04:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A British grandmother on death row in Indonesia is writing goodbye letters to her family and believes she could be executed at any time, she wrote in an article on Sunday.
Lindsay Sandiford, 58, said she was expecting to die shortly, after seven foreign drug convicts were executed last week, causing a storm of international protest.
"My execution is imminent and I know I might die at any time now. I could be taken tomorrow from my cell," Sandiford wrote in British newspaper the Mail on Sunday.
"I have started to write goodbye letters to members of my family."
Sandiford, originally from Redcar in northeast England, wrote that she planned to sing the cheery popular song "Magic Moments" when facing the firing squad.
"I won't wear a blindfold. It's not because I'm brave but because I don't want to hide -- I want them to look at me when they shoot me."
She said her greatest sadness is that she may never meet her two-year-old granddaughter, who was born after her arrest.
(Excerpt) Read more at thejakartapost.com ...
True. Drug dealers should be shot, vigilante style.
If you believe that story, I've got a bridge over the East River I'd be willing to let go of for a song.
First of all, why would a "drug syndicate" be willing to take a chance on letting an untested elderly woman mule over $3 million worth of cocaine? Especially when the most likely course of action for any sane person in her circumstances would simply be to alert the authorities?
PLEASE!
Google this "innocent Grandma's" name, and get an eyeful. She's apparently been smuggling drugs into Bali for over 25 years and is far from innocent.
She was willing to roll over on three or four of her lower level operatives in exchange for clemency, and threatened one of them sentenced to the same prison with murder if she blew her "sweet little grandma" cover.
The media is willing to advance any lie no matter how ridiculous to stop an execution. This is nothing near what is being portrayed in the gullible/activist media.
She's at the top of the food chain and the cops know it, unlike the dumbasses in the collaborationist western press.
Wrong. What’s really going on here is nothing like what the story says. She’s a high level drug trafficker who was willing to sell-out her lower level operatives for what she thought was clemency, but the courts knew exactly where she was in the chain of command.
I thought I heard that the Indonesian government has let some of those guys out of prison.
yes--in addition, prosecutors recommended a lesser sentence because she cooperated with the police, but the panel of judges disagreed...
That's true in Western society. As a Westerner I feel for her that she's got to die for her crime, but on the other hand, she brought it on herself.
BINGO!!!
As Baretta says, if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.
And that’s the name of that tune.
I thought I heard that the Indonesian government has let some of those guys out of prison.
Incorrect. The Bali bombers were executed years ago...
the infowarrior
Looks like these were pretty broad plots, with bombings in 2002 and 05, and the Indonesians arrested a bunch of perps. A handful were executed. Many other got jail sentences. Among these, a bunch have been set free.
Paradise for Terrorists. 36 Bali Bombers that Killed 92 Australians are Walking Free
She admitted to the crime. That is why the OP adds a link. So you can read the story and get the details.
What’s with the tear-jerker headline? She was convicted for drug smuggling, not for being a grandmother.
Given the number of people killed or ruined by being exposed to these drugs, it is not overkill. It is exactly the right thing to do. This stuff is death. She was transporting death, and now death is her wages.
This whole article is a deliberate attempt to play on people's emotions. She is still trying to weasel her way out of this.
After losing 2.4 million dollars in their drugs?
I imagine so, but I wasn't there and can only guess.
That’s how you fight a war on drugs. Our approach just wastes a lot of money.
I hate the “War on Drugs” and the resultant loss of freedoms by innocent citizens. I guess I just hate losing wars.
If you had laws like this here in the U.S I guarantee those little bastards hanging out on the street corner selling crack would disappear. Same goes for the white trash that makes meth.
I do too.
I remember landing in Auckland and passing by the "Amnesty Bin".
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