This is a most interesting series of posts and some well thoughtout and expressed opinions.
Personally I think that the Australian Government ought to intervene to the extent of supplying the bullets.

Rechtub,mate, I am 100% sure your self confidence is miss placed.
You told me I do not understand.
Then went on about police and a speeding motorist.
Others smirk in print at the thought of what looks like deaths of two, or three of these folk.
You claim no difference between a paid mule, who never shares the profits, and ring leaders.
In an American prison sits a man who helped bring on the GFC he is not to be killed for it.
Billions of stolen dollars hundreds of business criminals not one will die for it.
I see a heartlessness here not just you supplied the bullets?
No defense for drugs no defending them, but we kill the little man and the ring leaders never get caught.
In prestigious news papers in the 70,and 80,s big celebrity names we heard are behind drug importation, surely we know some police are too yet we kill a kid we could have taken off that plane and imprisoned.
Just maybe our federal police thought getting down on their knees to Indonesia letting them kill our people would gain favor to assist in terrorist or boat people things,, we gave up our people knowing we killed them in doing it gutless.

Those people we 'gave up' were perfectly happy to kill somebody else in Australia for money- so no, I can't say I feel bad for them- in fact, we are arguably still on a much better plane of morality because we technically, were acting in self-defense against them while they were acting on greed.

And I don't see why the differences of priorities and principles of some other justice system should factor in, unless the people who own that said justice system decide another approach is more workable for them.
But to imply "because X justice system fails to do this, what right does Y justice system have to try an approach in a different area?"
Or, because somebody has a bad idea, nobody else has the right to not follow suit and try better, for the sake of being consistent with the worst?

It's up to Indonesia to decide if they want to try a different approach to drug running, or keep the one they have now.

Belly, you are grasping at straws old mate.

The fact that many serious offenders will not face death for their crimes is totally irrelevant in this case as Indonesia has black and white laws when it comes to doing drugs. The death penalty. End of story.

Certain states within the Us also have the death penalty for certain crimes, however, if these crimes are committed elsewhere, the death penalty does not apply.

In any case there are many countries where the penalty for doing drugs is not death. He chose the wrong country.

BTW belly, had he tried to smuggle drugs from Australia to Indonesia and got caught here, he would not be facing the death penalty.

I say again, he made the wrong choice, but it was his choice to make.

A study was conducted years ago stating that most young people, young males particularly, are not able to think through social consequences of behaviour until they reach around the 25 year old mark.

There are exceptions with kids through harsher life experiences and/or from walks of life where they have listened and observed role models' stories of negative social situations. There are some old souls at a younger age, sure, that have common sense and the intelligence despite being drug traffickers, not to take up importing and exporting of drugs to Bali, Thailand, and other countries.

However, when I hear about the 25's and under being caught and knowing how young in the minds these kids are today, and the years of being imprisoned in dreadful environments such as the holes in Bali and Thailand; my heart goes out to both these kids, their siblings and parents. These kids deserve to learn from their experiences and be punished for a year, while in a rehabilitating environment; never fading away for more than a year sitting in a filthy gaol in a foreign country away from family and friends/their life.

We all make mistakes, particularly kids under 25 years of age learning.