[maui_hawaii]

Note to self: Don't smuggle anything through Singapore.

[Graybeard58]

"Personally I think if you go into a country you have to abide by their laws, and you have to live with the consequences."

Someone who "gets it"

[ncountylee]

Hey Nguyen.....save a spot for Tookie.

[DTogo]

There are many multi-lingual warnings on the airplanes into Singapore that drug smuggling is punishable by death: verbally over the com as they hand out transit/Customs forms, on screen when they play the tourist video, and on the customs declaration form itself.

Once in Changi Airport, there are plenty of pre-Customs multi-lingual notices in the terminal warning of the penalty for smuggling drugs into Singapore, and plenty of pre-Customs rest rooms in which to dump your stash.

There are simply no excuses.

[flying Elvis]

Midnight Express was enough to deter me from ever doing anything illegal in any country, including my own. lol

[Aussie Dasher]

Please amend the headline: "Australian MEDIA anger over Singapore hanging".

[dennisw]

We should be executing heroin and meth dealers here. Give a fair warning on the hew policy of course

[Inyokern]

What's the word I'm looking for?

CARE. That's it.

I don't CARE.

[garylmoore]

"He knew what he was doing and the consequences of his actions."

Hang em

[ApplegateRanch]

To put this in perspective, since we had the recent case of the Paki brothers being convicted of gang rape in Australia:

"At the weekend President Musharraf made his fifth personal plea to the Australian leadership, during the Heads of Government Meeting in Malta.

"Mr Musharraf warned that Australia should prepare for "lingering resentment" in Pakistan if the 10 year sentence went ahead.

"He has, however, rejected calls for boycotts of Australian companies, as well as trade and military sanctions with one of Pakistan's closest Oceanic allies.

"I believe Mr. Musharraf has done as much as he could do," said Mohammed Alhalabad, from the Shari'a Institute.

"Listening to talk-back radio, there are some people who think that rapists deserve prison terms, but I believe that the majority of Pakistanis hold a different view," Mr Alhalabad told the BBC News website.

Somehow, I don't think Mr. Howard would be swayed by such, and neither should Singapore...or Texas.

[x1stcav]

If justices Breyer, Kennedy, and Ruth Bader-Meinhoff-Ginsburg are paying attention that will note that this is a part of foriegn law that should be adopted by the US - death to drug dealers.

[Dustbunny]

Since they have only caught and hung 420 since 1991, the deterrent must be working.

Certainly should be making the drug runners think twice and when they are caught they have to do the time.

[kajingawd]

when in Rome.....

[montag813]

He said he was trying to smuggle the drugs from Cambodia to Australia to pay off his twin brother's debts.

Nxct time buy a NON-STOP ticket. Oh, sorry, I guess there won't be a next time.