I don't have a clue about any of this, but I'm curious to hear what those of you from the UK have to say about this. I'll copy and paste the general setup of the article, and state how I feel about it below.

A British grandmother on death row in Indonesia is writing goodbye letters to her family and believes she could be executed at any time, she wrote in an article on Sunday.

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Lindsay Sandiford, 58, said she was expecting to die shortly, after seven foreign drug convicts were executed last week, causing a storm of international protest.

"My execution is imminent and I know I might die at any time now. I could be taken tomorrow from my cell," Sandiford wrote in British newspaper the Mail on Sunday.

"I have started to write goodbye letters to members of my family."

Sandiford, originally from Redcar in northeast England, wrote that she planned to sing the cheery popular song "Magic Moments" when facing the firing squad.

"I won't wear a blindfold. It's not because I'm brave but because I don't want to hide -- I want them to look at me when they shoot me."

She said her greatest sadness is that she may never meet her two-year-old granddaughter, who was born after her arrest.

Sandiford was sentenced to death on the island of Bali in 2013 after she was convicted of trafficking drugs.

Customs officers found cocaine worth an estimated £1.6 million ($2.4 million, 2.2 million euros) hidden in a false bottom in Sandiford's suitcase when she arrived in Bali on a flight from Thailand in 2012.

Sandiford admitted the offences, but says that she agreed to carry the drugs after a drug syndicate threatened to kill her son.

 

My opinion: I don't really know much about the situation other than what was stated in this article, but looking at this from a sentimental point of view, I feel immense sorrow for this woman. I think it's terrible that she's to get firing squad, absolutely terrible. To me, it doesn't make sense for her to come into the country with drugs, so I actually believe in her story of being forced. I'll put the link below.

http://news.yahoo.com/british-grandmother-prepares-execution-indonesia-215015360.html

Regardless if she is was forced to bring drugs into the country or not, you have to sign a declaration when you get to the country on what you are carrying. She knew she was carrying drugs and continued through security regardless until they found them. Of course you could argue she was forced, but it's a bit of a moot point. What we know is that she took drugs into the country and got caught. Their country, their rules as for what happens next.

Even if she was forced to carry the drugs, she could have declared them at customs and explained the situation - no one was holding a gun to her head forcing her to keep it a secret when walking through immigration.

When you enter a country, you come under their laws, and the fact that you are foreign often plays little or no part in the sentencing. If a court says that she must die, then I won't argue against it - you must respect the culture of the country you are in, not expect them to respect yours.

It is, however, a very sorry situation. I don't feel sympathy for her, but I can't imagine what her pain must be like to know she might never see her family again.

Regardless if she is was forced to bring drugs into the country or not, you have to sign a declaration when you get to the country on what you are carrying. She knew she was carrying drugs and continued through security regardless until they found them. Of course you could argue she was forced, but it's a bit of a moot point. What we know is that she took drugs into the country and got caught. Their country, their rules as for what happens next.

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Even if she was forced to carry the drugs, she could have declared them at customs and explained the situation - no one was holding a gun to her head forcing her to keep it a secret when walking through immigration.

When you enter a country, you come under their laws, and the fact that you are foreign often plays little or no part in the sentencing. If a court says that she must die, then I won't argue against it - you must respect the culture of the country you are in, not expect them to respect yours.

It is, however, a very sorry situation. I don't feel sympathy for her, but I can't imagine what her pain must be like to know she might never see her family again.

​Now, do you guys think this execution will have some sort of negative effect on the British population? Generally, are people in the UK fighting against this execution or do people not really care? According to this article, the British Government has refused to provide any financial aid to the Indonesian Government to recourse the executions. Do you think the government should be more involved or is this a simple, "oh well" type of situation?

One of my biggest pet peaves is when people from other countries judge US policy when they don't know how it works, so I'm not even going to touch the policy part of this.

The only thing I'll comment on is moral policy. It's my personal belief that no one should be imprisoned for non-violent drug crimes, let alone killed. This is barbaric. I hope there's some kind of international organization in place that will be able to intervene in some way.

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​Now, do you guys think this execution will have some sort of negative effect on the British population? Generally, are people in the UK fighting against this execution or do people not really care? According to this article, the British Government has refused to provide any financial aid to the Indonesian Government to recourse the executions. Do you think the government should be more involved or is this a simple, "oh well" type of situation?

​There are groups out there who are trying to get this stopped, just like the Australians who were also executed a few days ago, I presume the same organizations are involved in trying to get the Indonesian government to stop the execution. I don't think this is going to have a massive negative effect on the population of the UK as a whole. Our government even has radio adverts sating "Don't get talked into trafficking drugs, once you're in, the British government can't bail you out".

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​Now, do you guys think this execution will have some sort of negative effect on the British population? Generally, are people in the UK fighting against this execution or do people not really care? According to this article, the British Government has refused to provide any financial aid to the Indonesian Government to recourse the executions. Do you think the government should be more involved or is this a simple, "oh well" type of situation?

​I really don't think that anyone cares, mainly because the media simply doesn't cover it. Only those groups who work for rights abroad know about these kinds of things. 

There is nothing the government do when a National commits a crime abroad, and it would be potentially damaging if they decided to distil international relations with those countries.