[EternalVigilance]

I support the death penalty, but the punishment should fit the crime. IMO, this does not. It’s overkill, literally.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

I support the death penalty, but the punishment should fit the crime.

True. Drug dealers should be shot, vigilante style.

[FredZarguna]

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.

[latina4dubya]

I support the death penalty, but the punishment should fit the crime. IMO, this does not. It’s overkill, literally.

yes--in addition, prosecutors recommended a lesser sentence because she cooperated with the police, but the panel of judges disagreed...

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I support the death penalty, but the punishment should fit the crime. IMO, this does not. It’s overkill, literally.

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.

[DiogenesLamp]

I support the death penalty, but the punishment should fit the crime. IMO, this does not. It’s overkill, literally.

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.