Very insightful. I think it is very sad that something that created such an uproar and outpouring of support at the time is forgotten and unmentioned just two short years later. I learnt about executions because of Myuran and his situation - read a lot, thought a lot. I cannot comprehend how the law can be used to take a life. And because it is decided by law, then there is no recourse to save that life. So sad and so unjust. I believe in rehabilitation despite the system that surrounds us.

Just think about the lives saved because the break up of drug smuggling this man and the others were doing.

These criminals are dead, buried and forgotten.

Don't forget that before they were executed, they were were dealing in illegal drugs - caused untold tragedy in Australia and who knows where else. Shooting by firing squad was too good for them.

Cobber the hound states that due to the killing of those men that other lives were saved due to the drug smuggling they were part of. Well, given the drug trade has continued to grow since then that is a hollow and worthless claim. It is clear the current approach of law enforcement has failed. All it has done is waste public monies to tune of billions and made some criminals very wealthy.

It is time to decriminalize personal drug use and take the health centred approach of Portugal and others who have been smart enough to realize you cannot police your way out of situation where there is a market demand and people willing to break laws to supply it. Of course, the more simple among us don't realize that.

Drugs harm nobody who doesn't make a stupid and totally voluntary decision to ingest them. A firing squad does a lot of harm to anyone forced to stand in front of it.

Hi there Suresh RUBERAN...

I fully understand your anguish of these eight individuals who were executed. I too am against capital punishment. However I'll let you know a little about one of those who's death you lament, Myuran SUKUMARAN. This individual was a lowlife, a standover man, and a possible killer, who thought nothing of terrorizing some poor bloke or woman who couldn't pay his inflated prices for his drugs and or protection. The way he ostensibly turned his life around said more for his realisation of his eminent demise, together with his enduring worry concerning his own mortality, rather than some miraculous awaking or something just as mysterious. As I said, I don't support capital punishment, but I do support long terms of imprisonment.