iv ABSTRACT
Narcotics are legal drug if the person acquired it from a doctor's
prescription. Today people often abusing narcotics that itself has become
a crime. Narcotics crime is getting bigger by the exporters or importers or
couriers who carry out these activities. The hardest sanctions imposed is
death penalty. On the other side under international law capital
punishment can only be imposed for the most serious crimes. On than
that, under international law capital punishment can only be done through
a fair trial
This study uses normative juridical approach to the specification
deskripstive analytical research. Data collection techniques used in the
form of literature studies (library research) to obtain materials or secondary
data in the form of primary legal materials and secondary legal materials
that were analyzed qualitatively to answer the formulation of the problem
posed. This study also uses primary data sources by conducting
interviews with lawyers from Lindsay Sandiford and Staff of Reprieve, UK.
The results obtained in this study is that narcotics can not be
sentenced to death, because when if it viewed by the elements according
to international human rights law which Indonesia itself has become a
party of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR),
narcotics can not be categorized as a serious crime, furthemore the
imposition of the death penalty against Lindsay Sandiford not through fair
