I keep on reading that the death penalty doesn't stop people still trafficking in drugs,well if that don't stop them then long prison sentences won't make any difference either.
This might sound callous, but if you give them life or long sentences they have to be clothed and fed and looked after for anything upto say 50 years, that is a hell of a lot of money.
The prison population in the USA is well over two and a quarter million people in prison as of 2011,can you imagine the cost.?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarce..._United_States
I think there will be a few more death penalties carried out in Indonesia before the this year is out.