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an. 26, p5

Sunday service at the C3 Church Bali in Denpasar felt different. During the service, all parishioners who attended recited a prayer for two Australian drug smugglers on death row, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan.

'€œWe pray for Myuran and Andrew. May the will of God happen. We believe that the will of God is grace. It is compassion and wisdom,'€ said pastor Geoff Collins, who led the prayer.

Sukumaran, 33, and Chan, 31, have been detained at Kerobokan Penitentiary for almost 10 years. They are two of nine Australians, the so-called Bali Nine, convicted for an attempt to smuggle about 8 kilograms of heroin from Bali to Australia in 2005.

Your comments:

The death penalty negates the possibility that convicts may repent and redress the offense they have committed against society.

The death penalty rejects the culpability of the entire society for a few scapegoats '€“ it is barbaric.  

Jan Karl

God will do something for the Bali Nine. Keep praying!

Anthony

We all make mistakes. The question is what we can learn from them and how we can benefit from them.

Myuran and Andrew have learnt and benefited from their mistake and now the Indonesian people are benefiting from the work they do.  

Who will benefit from their execution?

It seems to me that the government wants to be seen as taking a strong stance on drugs, while neglecting to have a strategic plan for addressing the problem.

Geoff Collins

It would have been even nicer had they started that work many years ago, instead of trying to smuggle drugs and wreak untold harm on the Australian people.  

Terry McAsee