Abolish death penalty for drug trafficking

last SG · 2010-07-25T09:55:42+00:00

You are skipping your medicine again, let me remind you of your topicAbolish death penalty for drug trafficking.

PRP SG

I urge the govt to consider amending the law to abolish death penalty for drug trafficking. The reasons are as follows:

1. Death penalty is an inhumane punishment. It should not be used lightly and inappropriately.

2. The motive of drug trafficking is for money. So acts of drug trafficking don't deserve death penalty.

3. Drug traffickers should not solely be blamed for the availability of drug in Singapore. There are sellers of drugs who buy from traffickers and sell them to drug addicts.

4. Drug addicts buy drugs voluntarily. If you are not interested in narcotic drugs, you would not take it even if it is free of charge.

5. Many Western countries view death penalty very negatively. Punishing people from these countries with death penalty would result to controversies and bad publicity for the country.

6. Abolishing death penalty for drug trafficking would be a humane act which should be a value espouses by the National Kindness Movement.

I appeal to you and all MPs to actively support this suggestion.

~PEPPER~ SG

The problem is our government believes in strict law to deter drug trafficking.

troublemaker2005 SG

The gahmen is on right track. Death penalty stays for drugs. when your sons and daugghters are drug addicts, you will know and feel the pain. if you don't then at least don't make my sons and daughters take drugs and make me feel the pain.

even if a 5 year old boy or girl paddle drugs, if i can make the law i will still hang him or her.

TTFU SG

Whats with this retarded TS ? I need my ecstasy now

Just_do_it_lah SG

there are 58 countries in the World still having death penalty in both law & practise.

so, Singapore is not the only few countries with these Capital punishment...

Think before you do... think about the consequences... you brain is not all about SEX.

gunner77 SG

No.

It must stay.

Only then can it trigger fear into people who dares to commit the crime.

Just_do_it_lah SG

Whats with this retarded TS ? I need my ecstasy now

sorry... no more....ecstasy...

wat about the Next Good, Blue thing....

TTFU SG

Even if you want to debate, do it properly. Lines like these makes me laught

2. The motive of drug trafficking is for money. So acts of drug trafficking don't deserve death penalty

4. Drug addicts buy drugs voluntarily. If you are not interested in narcotic drugs, you would not take it even if it is free of charge.

troublemaker2005 SG

Please give me a chance. so hat i can live and eat black rice bowl off singapore prison taxpayers' money, when i come out i still a drago go peddle drugs again because i get caugt i get ppl sign petition and then nathan forgive me and then i can go peddle drugs again.

my own owe me money i no money go rob and cut ppl fingers withh parang then forgive me cause i no money.

imagine if drugs sells like ice cream in a small island like singapore what will happen?

imagine if ppl no mpney just rob and kill how? no money don;t travel. stay in your own country.

PRP SG

PEPPER said:

"The problem is our government believes in strict law to deter drug trafficking."

I believe u mean "harsh law". There should be a limit to harshness of the law. Furthermore, the punishment should be appropriate to the crime committed.

sgdiehard SG

Speakers corner is coming to an end with this kind of post.

Moka SG

Drug ruins a person's life and sometimes it only takes 1 pill for a person to get addicted.

Instead of curing/ treating the addicts, why not prevent them right from the start? If death penalty is abolished, the number of people willing to smuggle drug increases, and when supply increases the price will drop, leading to a surge increase of demand and evil cycle repeats. On a bigger scale, won't there be more people who commit crimes and more people sent to jail?

I thought anyone who possesses drug that is over the limit are subjected to death penalty as well. So death penalty does not only involves traffickers, but also sellers and peddlers.

I think the world will be a much much better place without all these addictive drugs.

PRP SG

If there is no demand, there won't be supply. So the govt should solve the problem from the source.

kramnave SG

If there is no demand, there won't be supply. So the govt should solve the problem from the source.

hang drug users?

~PEPPER~ SG

PEPPER said:

"The problem is our government believes in strict law to deter drug trafficking."

I believe u mean "harsh law". There should be a limit to harshness of the law. Furthermore, the punishment should be appropriate to the crime committed.

Yah I meant harsh laws.

I think our government impose harsher laws to deter drug tracfficking.

Imagine how many families they drug tracffickers can harm with their drugs.

So our government impose harsh punishment.

~PEPPER~ SG

If there is no demand, there won't be supply. So the govt should solve the problem from the source.

I agree.

~PEPPER~ SG

even if a 5 year old boy or girl paddle drugs, if i can make the law i will still hang him or her.

Children paddle drugs I think cannot punish them below legal age for criminal responsibility.

troublemaker2005 SG

If there is no demand, there won't be supply. So the govt should solve the problem from the source.

there is no demand in the first place. those that take drugs are usually tricked or goat into it. most don;t even know what the drug can do for them, just pride and when people challenge them to take it. afterthe first few doses once they addicted to it theyere will be the demand.

people jsut will not face reality. after the effects of drugs wear off the addiction picked up and they are back in the real world of reality, that life goes on. immagine a society like this, everything will crumble.

hang them all, even if they are kids, then kids will start to thing like adults i tell you. nowadays kids are not stupid, so just don;t act blur.

Aurinya SG

I do agree with the death penalty not supposed to be lightly used part...but I think it shouldn't be entirely abolished for the case of drug trafficking, but rather it should be revised in some ways, say, be a bit more lax on the amount of drugs trafficked in order to receive capital punishment and such. Abolishing the entire thing wouldn't be very sensible cuz after all drug trafficking is really quite serious and we don't want drug traffickers to be tinkering with a small population like SG. That aside, sg is known for its strict laws, so to get them to repeal the act would already be a considerable feat, not to mention abolishing the entire thing. =__=

Oh and regarding the "humane" problem, maybe they could consider using lethal injection instead of, er, hanging? Cuz hanging IS rather inhumane. Sometimes the poor dude takes 20min or so to die. I don't really think it is much different from beheading someone when the axe is blunt. Ahem.

skythewood SG

What you see: a young drug trafficker sentenced to death

What you don't see: drug kings waging wars, killing people sending minions to traffic drugs. Every successful drug trafficking makes him stronger. Every sale makes him more powerful. To cut off the source of these evil drug lords, What do you think all the government should do to solve the problem?

For the west, they condone it, allowing it to be a part of the culture, feeding the evil, not thinking about how the tiny sales adds up

For Singapore, the answer is to make sure that every trafficker really, really think twice before even trying, and starving the source, not even allowing the culture to have any chance of setting in.