British Justice System Discovers Empathy, Forgets Brown People
Lindsay Sandiford, 68, will be repatriated from Indonesia, avoiding the death penalty for drug smuggling after 12 years on death row. The report notes her claims of being coerced by a gang. Meanwhile, countless individuals of different nationalities face similar fates globally, often without a whisper of their plight reaching Western media save for a brief mention in court documents, their lives
deemed less newsworthy, perhaps, than a British passport. One might wonder where this fervent diplomatic intervention is for the hundreds of others facing execution in Iran, Saudi Arabia, or, say, Gaza, where less-than-due process claims are abundant—not that the Guardian seems particularly invested in those stories beyond boilerplate coverage. It appears some lives, and some legal systems, are
simply more deserving of bespoke international agreements than others.