Today is short and to the point. The respect i have for Death penalty being a powerful deterrence to crime is drastically decreasing at a very fast pace.
"I’ve got more important things to worry about"Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong during an interview with the BBC in September 2003 in response to a question asking why he did not know the precise number of people executed in 2003.
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He was educationally sub-normal, but that does not absolve him from his criminal deeds"Judge sentencing Malaysian, Rozman Jusoh, to death, August 1995 (Newpaper, 15 August 1995) See page 6 for case details
"The Singapore Medical Association takes the ethical code of the medical profession very seriously. We have no difficulties adhering to the provisions in Singapore laws concerning crime and punishment. These laws, which include caning and death penalty for certain criminal offences reflect Singapore’s own set of social standard and order. It is because of our tough laws that we are able to keep Singapore orderly and relatively crime-free. As doctors, we are indeed glad that Singapore’s approach to crime and punishment helps to preserve life and quality of life for the majority of law-abiding citizens and residents, unlike the situation in many cities in the US, where people, including children, are injured, maimed or killed by criminals at an alarming rate. We believe that
prevention is better than cure and that the interests and concern of the victim are more important than those of the criminals."’
Did they just say that?
Are they going to ignore the risk of killing an innocent and removing a person's right to live? Singapore even defied the UN of abusing human rights!
ah well, night
.][-Splattered my blood on
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