So Singapore takes away a life, again. The life of young Van Tuong Ngyuen, who died at the end of a rope in Singapore for drug trafficking 25 times the amount of heroin that attracts an automatic death sentence. Someone commits a crime, and then they are killed. Can someone explain the point of this?
This is particularly silly. Because someone commits a crime, that person is punished by being executed. So Singapore believes that if you make a mistake, you must die. The sons and daughters murdered, and lost to drugs cannot be brought back to life, so what is the point of executing the criminal? Surely the criminal should be punished; he or she should be locked up behind bars, but not killed. Everyone has a right to life, and executing someone is unambiguously barbaric.
Singapore should wake up. By 1984 every state of Australia had abolished the death penalty, yet Singapore still believes in it. The Singaporeans must be hair-brained if they can’t realise how barbaric the death......
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