A current affairs reporting and opinionated article authored by the

Clayton: But the international drug traffic in Indonesia is intense.

students:

The government argument is that kill these criminals are the best
way to teach others, making then an example. However, there are

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Breno Senna (08)

Bruno Veneziani (10)

discussions in the political sciences area, questioning the

Jode Clayton (27)

Lucas Moretto (32)

Rodrigo Iskenderian (40)

punishment with no decrease in the criminality statistics.

Death Penalty crossing the geographics and ethics boundaries

Capital punishment and International Diplomacy are two extremely
dense and actual themes. They involve a range of political contexts,
as expect from a entrance exam theme (such as ENEM and Fuvest).
They are polemics themes, and like everything that is controversial,
requires a higher level of understanding and resourcefulness on the

efficiency of this fear effect. There are countries with capital

According to the most of the jurists, the better decision for the
moment is to respect the Indonesian law. Take a position of
fighting against the sentence is contributed to the decrease of
effectiveness of the law intimidation. Albert Einstein put it
succinctly in his famous statement that nothing is more destructive
of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing
laws that cannot be enforced.

part of those who discusses it. Also, the subject is in vogue after

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being awakened by the diplomatic mess involving Brazil and

Indonesia.
Iskenderian: Our speech is about a recent event on Indonesia. Well,
Seven foreigners and one Indonesian were executed recently,
sparking a diplomatic outcry. Rodrigo Gularte, a Brazilian drugtrafficking convict who was executed by an Indonesian firing squad
in April, was unable to comprehend the sequence of events until the
very end, a priest who counseled him said, according to reports.
Gularte, and seven other convicts including two Australian
nationals from the Bali Nine ring, were executed over drug-related
offenses.
Veneziani: Father Charlie Burrows, who ministers to prisoners in
Cilacap where the executions took place, reportedly said that his
attempts to explain to Gularte for three days that he would be
executed soon were in vain. Brazil had made repeated pleas for
Indonesia to commute his sentence on humanitarian grounds,
citing his mental illness, as doctors had diagnosed the 42-year-old
with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. According to the

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warden

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urge

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ambassador

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spark

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outcry

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delusional

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outrageous

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surfing gear

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deem

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behalf

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illness

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regard

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luggage

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tough

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moratorium

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priest he was hearing voices all the time. He talked to him for about
an hour and a half, trying to prepare him for the execution. Burrows
reportedly said that he had no idea of what was going on.
Moretto: Our Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, had made
personal appeals on Gularte's behalf to Indonesia, and said, after
the execution, that Brazil was shocked by the second execution of a
brazilian citizen Indonesia in three months. Indonesian President
Joko Widodo had rejected pleas from several countries and rights
organizations, stating that the country, which has one of the world's
toughest laws against drug offenses, wanted to send a strong
message to criminals. Indonesia says it takes a hard line because
of the country's own drugs problem - 33 Indonesians die every day
as a result of drugs, according to Indonesia's National Narcotics
Agency. The country has some of the toughest drug laws in the

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world and ended a four-year moratorium on executions in 2013.

Senna: When Socrates, Plato and Aristotle deemed that to some
extent the death penalty was appropriate, their thoughts apply to
the present situation in Indonesia. Capital punishment in this
country is reserved only for serious crimes, such as narcotics and
terrorism. Countries practicing the death penalty in the world,

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the death penalty for Indonesian convicts, yet when it comes to

foreigners, matters are more sensitive and complicated. In this
specific case, a big buzz rounded the execution, bringing the
question about the fairness of killing a criminal. This was
highlighted due to the supposedly mental illness of the acused.

http://www.dhnet.org.br/direitos/penamorte/mariaignez.ht
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment

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https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/death-penalty/

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http://www.ibtimes.com/rodrigo-gularte-brazilian-drugtrafficking-convict-executed-indonesia-was-unaware-

including those in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, share

similar arrangements.In practice, there is relatively little issue about

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/01/22/diplomac

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32527977