Could DEATH PENALTY be the solution for Illegal Drug Problem?

          I'm personally against illegal drug trafficking and death penalty. Both promote the culture of death contrary to the gospel of Jesus.

        According to the report, Veloso's lawyer revealed the information she has received that on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, our sister Mary Jane Veloso, a 30-year-old single mother of two boys is due to face an Indonesian firing squad together with other seven foreigners.

            Indonesian President Joko Widodo showed little indication of clemency despite his promise to review the legal issue in the case of Veloso after President Benigno Aquino's personal appeal on Monday, the reports said.

                Can anyone blame Indonesia's effort of freeing the country from illegal drugs?

           For sure nobody would do the blaming because every country desires such a status as illegal drug free nation.

           However, in battling against this particular social issue of illegal drug smuggling, could death sentence be a solution?

            My answer is 'yes' and 'no.' How?

        'Yes,' death penalty can be the solution to eliminate the drug problems if the financers and manufacturers of these unlawful drugs are the one to be executed. Unless these billionaires who finance the productions and smuggling are dead there can be no end to the problem.

            And 'no,' neither firing squad nor lethal injection can be an efficient means to abate the spread of this crisis if the pushers and users are the ones to be executed. There are many like Mary Jane who are victims of drug syndicates, many still are out there who are willing to carry these unlawful items by force of circumstances and poverty. Can we blame them?

         For humanitarian purposes, life imprisonment with maximum security is enough for the culprits. Despite their offenses they still have the right to live which the world should recognize and uphold. After all, God alone has the right to take away what He has given to us - life.

           Proper education, strengthening family and religious values, in addition to good governance which priorities job opportunities for our countrymen, I believe, are the best solutions to the issue.

          I'm one with the millions out there who pray for the lives of these men who are about to be executed. May God forgive you and spare your souls.