It's not so much that I feel for them, I just hate the spectacle of it all. The death penalty accomplishes nothing, it's no more enlightened than hanging the corpses of your enemies over the city walls. It's a way for Indonesian politicians to show how tough they are despite the fact that going along with the status quo is the antithesis of being tough.
A tough decision would be to recognise that killing mules is a fucking pointless exercise. They're killing the middle men, they're not going after the manufacturers, the actual drug bosses, and they're making no effort to curb demand by treating drug addiction as the health issue it is. Before you start killing internationals for being stupid and greedy and taking idiotic risks take some fucking responsibility for your own house.
And forget drug addiction, what about the scourge of tobacco which kills more Indonesians per year than all illicit drug use combined? You'd think if they really gave a shit about protecting their populace they'd put even the most basic anti-tobacco measure in place. This is a country where pre-teens are hooked on smoking, where schoolkids can buy single cigarettes from kiosks at their schools. And they're killing drug mules - who are often not even bringing narcotics into the country - and acting all "you must respect our laws and our right to protect ourselves". And then there's the blatant corruption of it all. I'll respect Indonesian justice when it even slightly resembles it.
Basically Sukumaran and Chan and all the others are being killed because it'll give Joko Widodo a chubby. And I couldn't give a stuff what these people did or how much damage their attempted drug trafficking could have done, that's still fucking sick.