Oh great. A thread encompassing the Death Penalty and having a go at foreigners. If someone says that he didn't pay for his TV license or was only killed due to his religion I'll have to go and lie down somewhere dark till everything calms down.
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Originally Posted by Chris
On the contrary, if there was any suspicion of a mental health issue it would have been thoroughly investigated and if necessary, taken into account at the relevant point (whether that be while assessing culpability, or in sentencing).
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And funnily enough a great number of people who are up for sentencing do claim to have undiagnosed mental conditions which are normally taken at face value when submitted to the court by the defence.
I've mixed feelings, the guy obviously wasn't quite right, whether he wasn't right enough not to know what he was doing or that carrying 4 kilos of smack into China was a really bad idea isn't for me to say.
At the end of the day their country, their rules.
Strangely for a Government so opposed to the death penalty I don't remember the same outcry and demands for clemency when a certain dictator of a middle eastern country in between Saudi Arabia and Iran was facing the rope.