Sg is 5 gram more lenient than Iran
A brief history of death by decree
By Connie Levett
November 23, 2005
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The death penalty was used in Singapore during colonial times and
stayed on the books after independence in 1965, with Lee Kuan Yew
the founding prime minister. The penalty was mandatory for murder
and offences against the president, and was discretionary for a
number of other offences.
In 1975 the Misuse of Drugs Act was amended to make the death
penalty mandatory for people caught trafficking a certain amount of
drugs (the amount varies depending on the drug). For heroin it is
more than 15 grams. Nguyen was convicted of trafficking 396
grams.
The Arms Offences Act was also later amended to provide a mandatory
death sentence for a range of firearms offences.
The mandatory death penalty for drug offences was introduced
because "in the 1960s and 1970s the drug problem in Singapore
assumed alarming proportions", according to the judgement in
Nguyen's final appeal.
By comparison, Iranian law provides a mandatory death
sentence where the trafficking only involves more than 10 grams of
heroin.
The compare Sg with Iran.What did they want to imply??
