Another four years of Bush and Ashcroft, and this will be America, not Jakaarta.

Seven more convicted drug traffickers on death row are facing imminent execution after President Megawati Soekarnoputri turned down their requests for clemency on Thursday. Last month, she also refused to grant clemency for four other convicted drug traffickers on death row...

Megawati admitted she took no pleasure in rejecting the appeals for clemency, but it was her obligation to protect the nation's youth from illicit drugs. "I have to stress here that it is my obligation to protect our children and youth from the threat of drug abuse and trafficking," she said. Megawati asked for understanding from foreign countries over the decision, as most of those convicted were foreigners.

Sorry, President Megawati, you will get no pass here with your lame excuse. May the guilt you feel from your complicity in these traffickers' executions be with you forever.

John Kerry supports the death penalty only for terrorists, and has said he supports a moratorium on the death penalty (pdf) at the federal level due to the number of persons on death row who have been found to be factually innocent of their crimes. In his own words:

“I support a moratorium on the death penalty, because I believe that there are serious systemic flaws in the death penalty system, which have resulted in the conviction of people who are innocent.”