No nation can call itself civilized that still uses the death penalty.
They won’t be getting my tourist dollars.
You’re not missing much. It’s a soulless place, not to mention remarkably racist. Sure it’s clean and safe, but there’s no vibrancy. I live in South America, in a city that’s considered dangerous by world standards, but I walk out my door and there’s music and life… the city buzzes. Some people like living in a sterile bubble I guess but not me.
Hablas español? Cuales tu ciudad?
Me defiende jeje. Mi compañera es Colombiana y vivimos en Medellín. Y tú ¿de dónde eres?
Well… Singapore is trying to use it for like everything
No they are not they use it for drug trafficking and murder cases
They also jail people for chewing a gum, your argument is invalid.
That’s not the death penalty and they didn’t make an argument. They were stating a fact.
That was half-joke, half-reminder of how fucked up the country is. But whatever.
IMO as an outsider Singapore is less fucked up than America. It’s got some rough edges for sure though lol.
Not sure where you got this from, but this isn’t true. Chewing gum is NOT illegal in Singapore; you can keep them for your own consumption. You just cannot sell chewing gum in Singapore.
Yeah they hang you for lollygagging.
Most people would rather be hanged than go to prison if they truly knew what was being done behind closed doors in the name of being humane.
Ask that the greatest natuon called USA first.
I would but they’re hiding from their local mass shooter.
Americans are appalling, fat, unhealthy, with mental problems. They disgust me
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Go be fat somewhere mate
Getting high on that moral ground buddy?
Some crimes are so heinous and intrinsically evil that I believe we as society shouldn’t take the burden of keeping those people alive just for the sake of it. I believe that in those very limited cases, death penalty should be allowed.
The problem is that you will 100% kill innocent people. And there is no way to reverse it later on…
something like 5% of american executions are of innocent people. Disgusting. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence/innocence-by-the-numbers
The state always hurts innocent people regardless, so ultimately better to just kill them than to subject them to the horrors of prison and act like that’s okay simply because they’re alive.
Personally, it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make and I unironically would feel safer from my own government knowing the worst that’ll happen is a mere hanging compared to the enslavement, torture and rape, for decades, flung onto innocents in the name of being humane.
These process go through lengthy trials
If it’s allowed there will be mistakes, innocent people will be killed.
And it will be abused.
Mistakes happen, get over it
This should only be used for cases where there is 100% of evidence that the person is guilty (eg: tool box killers, Breivik, mass murderers, etc)
Except Singapore has used it plenty of times with flimsy evidence.
I agree death penality itself has its uses e.g. prosecution of war criminals, rebel leaders, druglords and I think corrupt officials in some cases. It should be applied to those who despite being behind bars would continue to influence outside causing more death or downfall of a nation if they remain alive. Though for this case just for carrying heroine I don’t think that should be a death sentence it is just stupid an outdated way of control. Though problem with death sentence sometimes it becomes a hammer and when it becomes a hammer everything becomes a nail. It should only be a last resort.
Funny how Singaporean media is remaining quiet about this
I don’t know how free their press is over there
That makes sense
Edit: holy fuck Vietnam is even worse
Isn’t that pretty common there?
Yay for equality?
A win… I guess? We’re both equally screwed?
Idk, are you trafficking drugs?
Not intentionally, but what if someone uses my luggage to smuggle drugs and I get caught with it?
Straight to jail.
Let’s go equality
Stunning and brave.
Singapore: We still got it!
Fuck drug dealers.
Sure, but it’s hardly worth killing them.
Fuck the “war on drugs”. All the things cited to justify drug prohibition are actually caused by the prohibition, not the drugs themselves.
Drug dealers lead to murderers. Fool do whatever to protect income, mainstream or street.
Why is it the first woman executed in 20 years instead of person?
Because they have executed a bunch of men in the previous years. This is just the first woman.
Then why is this important?
Because despite all the gender equality movements etc etc we still naturally value women more than men.
“Man hate”
Fuck around and found out.
People are acting like Singapore isn’t notorious for its draconian drug laws. So knowing full well that they WILL use the death penalty on drug cases, people still do it. OK, then you just showed either how stupid you are or how little regard you have for your own life if you deal with drugs there. Zero sympathy for these people.
This is a desperate person taking a risk, not a pedo or a serial killer
Fat Americans complaining about it while having the death penalty and mass shootings every other day.
Not every state has the death penalty.
