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Australians support Bali Nine executions

The majority of Australians think Bali Nine drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran should be executed, despite a large campaign for clemency.

A Morgan Poll conducted last week shows 52 per cent of people think Australians sentenced to death in another country for drug trafficking should be executed.

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Of those polled, 64 per cent said the Australian government should not do any more to stop the execution of Chan and Sukumaran, who have been on death row for 10 years.

Liberal and National voters were strongly in favour of the executions being carried out, while the majority of ALP and Greens voters were against them.

Roy Morgan Research executive chairman Gary Morgan said the majority of Australians across all age groups thought the government had done enough.

“Looking at key demographics shows that a majority of Australians in each age group, both genders and through all six states agree that the Australian Government should not do more to stop the executions of Chan & Sukumaran,” he said.

Some of Australia’s best known actors and musicians joined the campaign for clemency this week, asking for the men to be spared in a video called ‘I Stand For Mercy’.

Despite appeals from Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said he would make “no compromise” when it came to drug dealers.

“They can ask for amnesty to the president but I tell you there will be no amnesty for drug dealers,” Mr Widodo told CNN.

A petition run by the Mercy Campaign has received more than 50,000 signatures.

Chan and Sukumaran’s legal teams have asked for a final judicial review, claiming judges made “serious mistakes” during the first review.

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