Deadly Decisions
Monday, May 28, 2001
Punishment as retribution does not suit the objective of the law, which is to educate and reform men.
Brig. Gen. Jacky Uly approves of capital punishment, in principle at least. But the chief of police in East Nusa Tenggara hopes that the deaths of Gerson Pandie and Frederik Soru in Kupang will be the first and the last executions in the province.
If nothing else, their deaths have rekindled a long-running debate on capital punishment in Indones
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