While it seems evident that many Australians support executing the two Bali Nine drug trafficking convicts from reading all the angry trolling comments on Facebook shouting “off with their heads,” there’s now statistical evidence to back up that sentiment.
A survey asking Australians if they are in favor of the execution for the two Bali Nine Australians on death row found that most don’t believe in government intervention, reports the Jakarta Globe.
Referring to death row inmates Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the survey reportedly found 52 percent of respondents support the impending executions. The survey was taken by Roy Morgan Research in Australia from Friday to Tuesday with 2,123 participants, according to the Jakarta Globe.
“A slight majority of Australians say that Australians convicted of drug trafficking in another country and sentenced to death should be executed,” Roy Morgan Research executive chairman Gary Morgan said on the company’s website.
“When asked whether the Australian government should do more to stop the execution of Andrew Chan & Myuran Sukumaran a clear majority of Australians [62 percent] say the Australian government should not do more, compared to only 38 percent that say the Australian government should do more,” Morgan wrote.
Chan and Sukumaran, who are on death row for attempting to smuggle 8.3 kilograms of heroin out of Bali in 2005, lost their bid for clemency from President Joko Widodo.
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