Vietnam court upholds drug smuggler's death sentence

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Vietnam court upholds drug smuggler's death sentence

Published: 7 Oct 2012 at 00.00
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Vietnam's Supreme Court has refused to commute the death sentence of a 24-year-old Thai woman who smuggled narcotics into the country, according to the Saigon Daily.

The Supreme People's Court in Ho Chi Minh City has upheld the lower court's death sentence against Preeyanooch Phuttharaksa, the newspaper said on its website.

Preeyanuch was arrested in October of last year after customs officials at Tan Son Nhut Airport found more than three kilogrammes of methamphetamine hidden inside her luggage. Before her arrest, Preeyanuch had sneaked drugs into Vietnam twice, according to the indictment.

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bkk-farang
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Discussion 28 : 07 Oct 2012 at 12.3628
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@felixqui #25: Sorry, your logic here does not work. Let’s take another example: Maybe a banker provides the service of money laundering for criminals (choose your worst criminal activity). To quote you “(S)he has provided a service freely requested by consenting adults”. Do you think this banker would have done something illegal? Should (s)he be punished?
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Discussion 27 : 07 Oct 2012 at 12.2627
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Good, show the hard way for this drug dealers!! No Mersey!!
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Discussion 26 : 07 Oct 2012 at 12.2326
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Klauss, re D20.
Icecream and alcohol, as much as heroin and yaa baa, destroy and harm individuals and society. Are you proposing that icecream sellers be executed along with sellers of the addictive drug alcohol?
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Discussion 25 : 07 Oct 2012 at 12.2025
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What has she done? She has provided a service freely requested by consenting adults. She has not directly or intentionally harmed anyone.

It is exactly (not similar to, but exactly) the same as what doctors, cleaners, prostitutes and teachers do.

And she is being killed by a state? Does anyone see something seriously evil here? Does anyone not see something seriously evil here?
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Discussion 24 : 07 Oct 2012 at 12.0924
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Willing to pay the ultimate price (death) to achieve the ultimate thrill is commonly accepted by those participating in "extreme sports".

Tell me, where is the thrill in drug running ???
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Discussion 23 : 07 Oct 2012 at 11.5223
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Correct me if I am wrong, but isnt the death penalty the same in Thailand for the same crime she commited. I blame the Nigerian drug, guns and trafficing gangs that Thailand and Cambodia let parade through immigrations. The death penalty is outrages but as the old saying goes "do the crime do the time" anyone should know better that Asia is not the place to be smuggling drugs. I do feel sorry she got sucked in by those thugs
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Discussion 22 : 07 Oct 2012 at 11.4022
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It wasn't cleared from the news, if the Nigerian FORCED her to be a drug mule for them. Only that she did this before for a certain amount of money. She hasn't physically murdered someone but she assisted in a slow death to many who took the drug she smuggled into Vietnam. I'm sad for her family but not sorry for her as she was a repeated offender. Thailand has a death penalty for capital punishment by shooting, and has many addicts as well. Vietnam method is more humane, civilised or not. It's hardly a detererent because there always be desperate prople who'll do desperate deed. I guess it becomes news because it's a young woman (as discussion 13 commented)who committed a crime on foreign soil. If it's a young man, perhaps there won't be a space for him on the newspaper.
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Discussion 21 : 07 Oct 2012 at 11.3621
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Drug kills and destroys families. One drug dealer less makes the world a better place. Sorry, no sympathy for this girl from my side.
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Discussion 20 : 07 Oct 2012 at 11.3220
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What she did was wrong of course. But taking someones life is wrong too. Death penalties don't solve any problem. Imagine she wouldbe your daughter. She is not evil, just stupid.
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Discussion 19 : 07 Oct 2012 at 11.2319
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"Some of them had married citizens of African countries and were forced to become involved in the trans-national drug trade, officials say."

First of all I m sorry for the girl, but secondly, why would the africans force girls to smuggle drugs, when so many girls do it willingly? Thailand should stop believing that all it's citizens are law abiding people who would never break the law unless forced by a foreigner. Quite a few people both in Thailand and the rest of the world actually choose on their own to break all kinds of laws in order to enrich themselves :-)
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