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COMMENT I went to bed on Tuesday night with a heavy heart. I knew when I awoke in the morning, two young Australian men whose stories I have been tracking in the news will be dead.

 

I woke up at 5am and reached out to my iPad. With bleary eyes I read the dreaded headline: ‘Chan and Sukumaran executed’. My worst fears were confirmed.

 

The heavy heart I went to bed with felt heavier. My breakfast porridge felt tasteless as the morning TV breakfast news replayed scenes of the last days of the executed duo.  

 

Brewing across the Straits of Malacca is a topic that has overtones for Malaysia, a country that still retains the mandatory death sentence for drug trafficking, like Indonesia.

 

In light of the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran and six others - four Nigerians, a Brazilian and an Indonesian - what is the implication for Malaysia?

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