I applaud the Vietnamese government for doing to drug traffickers what should be done to them all over the world.
I still dream of the day when I see my great plan come to fruition: Swing a Dealer a Day. Wouldn't that be great?
Death sentence for Aussie drug smuggler
By staff writers
November 22, 2007 02:37pm
A NEW South Wales man convicted of trafficking heroin in Vietnam will be put to death, a court has decided.
The People's Court of Appeals in Ho Chi Minh City reaffirmed the sentence for Tony Manh, 40, at a hearing yesterday after hearing no new evidence for a reduction in his sentence, a court official told the Associated Press.
Manh was convicted in September of trafficking 948g of heroin and sentenced to death.
He was arrested in March when security officers at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City found drugs hidden on his body as he was about to board a plane to Sydney.
State media said Manh was paid $US10,000 ($11,445) by a Vietnamese to smuggle the drug into Australia.
Manh has seven days to appeal to President Nguyen Minh Triet for leniency.
About 100 people are sentenced to death in Vietnam each year for drug offences.
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