My view.
We are born in this world whatever our form according to God's blessing.
The last breath should also be according to God's blessing.
No human has the right to end the life of another human.
Those who do will have to face the wrath of God after this life.
Often we get very angry and upset over mass killers.
Arrest him to prevent further murders but do not hang him in leeturn as you will then be no different from him too -- a murderer.
Would you want to be someone in power?
I rather be a priest in my village by Lake Victoria, Uganda and seek forgiveness for the numerous mistakes I make all the time.
lol
brbrbrruuuhahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-inside-prison-executes-people-002154921.html
Meanwhile, there is no rehabilitation for death row inmates.
Singapore executed 11 prisoners by hanging in 2022, and five last year, according to the latest figures. All were convicted of drug charges.
Officials did not allow CNN to visit Institution A1, where more than 40 death row inmates await the same fate.
Halinda binte Ismail has a shock of bleach blond hair and sports a small stud in her left nostril.
By her count, the 61-year-old has been in prison at least seven times, always for drugs. Halinda says she was just 12 when she first smoked heroin.
Her last arrest was in 2017, when police raided the building where she lived with her eldest son, Muhammed Izwan bin Borhan.
Both mother and son were convicted for narcotics. But while Halinda ended up serving five years, her son was sentenced to death after police caught him with six packets of meth and heroin, according to court documents. He is still in prison, awaiting execution.
“I’m very angry with why the government doesn’t give [my son] a chance to change his life,” Halinda says.
“I always pray to the government ‘give my son a second chance.’”
Halinda is now part of a small movement of activists seeking to ban Singapore’s death penalty.
“It’s not solving anything, and it’s just disproportionately used against some of the most marginalized and weakest people in society,” says Kirsten Han, a journalist and activist with the Transformative Justice Collective, who lobbies on behalf of death row inmates.
“I just feel like it’s very morally wrong.”
Han’s outspoken criticism of Singapore’s system of executions has won her the personal enmity of Shanmugam, the Home Affairs minister.
“She is one of those who romanticizes the people on death row,” Shanmugam tells CNN.
However, Shanmugam confirms one of Han’s observations.
Among more than 40 inmates he says are currently on death row, most are in the “lower social-economic category.”
One of the 11 prisoners executed in 2022 for drug offenses was Nazeri bin Lajim.
“I was hoping that they [would] give him the life sentence, but they literally hanged my brother,” says his surviving sister Nazira.
Nazira says her brother was a life-long drug addict, but not a violent man.
She shows a series of portraits in her phone of Nazeri, dressed in a brightly printed T-shirt, smiling and holding up a victory sign for the camera.
Before each execution, authorities organize a professional photo shoot in which inmates trade their prison uniforms for civilian clothes.
Nazira doesn’t appreciate the gesture.
“It’s fake happiness,” she says.
She says she is encouraging her adult children to leave Singapore permanently to emigrate to Australia.
In public appearances, Shanmugam often highlights public drug use on the streets of European and American cities to justify Singapore’s approach to the problem.
But it may be more fitting to compare Singapore’s record with Hong Kong, another former British colony that has a zero-tolerance approach to drugs.
Hong Kong’s population is around 25% larger than Singapore’s, and it does not impose the death penalty for drug offenses.
Yet despite its considerably larger population, Hong Kong made 3,406 drug arrests in 2023 – just a few hundred more than the 3,101 drug arrests in Singapore.
And according to Shanmugam, drug arrests in Singapore surged 10% in 2023 – suggesting that perhaps the threat of death is failing to act as a deterrent to crime.
“It’s a fight that you never say you’ve won,” Shanmugam says.
“It’s a continuous work in progress.”
We are born in this world whatever our form according to God's blessing.
The last breath should also be according to God's blessing.
No human has the right to end the life of another human.
Those who do will have to face the wrath of God after this life.
Often we get very angry and upset over mass killers.
Arrest him to prevent further murders but do not hang him in leeturn as you will then be no different from him too -- a murderer.
Would you want to be someone in power?
I rather be a priest in my village by Lake Victoria, Uganda and seek forgiveness for the numerous mistakes I make all the time.
lol
brbrbrruuuhahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Exclusive: Inside the prison that executes people for supplying cannabis
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-inside-prison-executes-people-002154921.html
Meanwhile, there is no rehabilitation for death row inmates.
Singapore executed 11 prisoners by hanging in 2022, and five last year, according to the latest figures. All were convicted of drug charges.
Officials did not allow CNN to visit Institution A1, where more than 40 death row inmates await the same fate.
‘Give my son a second chance’
Outside the prison walls, relatives of death row inmates hold an agonizing vigil awaiting the fate of their loved ones.Halinda binte Ismail has a shock of bleach blond hair and sports a small stud in her left nostril.
By her count, the 61-year-old has been in prison at least seven times, always for drugs. Halinda says she was just 12 when she first smoked heroin.
Her last arrest was in 2017, when police raided the building where she lived with her eldest son, Muhammed Izwan bin Borhan.
Both mother and son were convicted for narcotics. But while Halinda ended up serving five years, her son was sentenced to death after police caught him with six packets of meth and heroin, according to court documents. He is still in prison, awaiting execution.
“I’m very angry with why the government doesn’t give [my son] a chance to change his life,” Halinda says.
“I always pray to the government ‘give my son a second chance.’”
Halinda is now part of a small movement of activists seeking to ban Singapore’s death penalty.
“It’s not solving anything, and it’s just disproportionately used against some of the most marginalized and weakest people in society,” says Kirsten Han, a journalist and activist with the Transformative Justice Collective, who lobbies on behalf of death row inmates.
“I just feel like it’s very morally wrong.”
Han’s outspoken criticism of Singapore’s system of executions has won her the personal enmity of Shanmugam, the Home Affairs minister.
“She is one of those who romanticizes the people on death row,” Shanmugam tells CNN.
However, Shanmugam confirms one of Han’s observations.
Among more than 40 inmates he says are currently on death row, most are in the “lower social-economic category.”
One of the 11 prisoners executed in 2022 for drug offenses was Nazeri bin Lajim.
“I was hoping that they [would] give him the life sentence, but they literally hanged my brother,” says his surviving sister Nazira.
Nazira says her brother was a life-long drug addict, but not a violent man.
She shows a series of portraits in her phone of Nazeri, dressed in a brightly printed T-shirt, smiling and holding up a victory sign for the camera.
Before each execution, authorities organize a professional photo shoot in which inmates trade their prison uniforms for civilian clothes.
Nazira doesn’t appreciate the gesture.
“It’s fake happiness,” she says.
She says she is encouraging her adult children to leave Singapore permanently to emigrate to Australia.
War on drugs
Singaporean officials point to surveys that show overwhelming public support for the government’s war on drugs.In public appearances, Shanmugam often highlights public drug use on the streets of European and American cities to justify Singapore’s approach to the problem.
But it may be more fitting to compare Singapore’s record with Hong Kong, another former British colony that has a zero-tolerance approach to drugs.
Hong Kong’s population is around 25% larger than Singapore’s, and it does not impose the death penalty for drug offenses.
Yet despite its considerably larger population, Hong Kong made 3,406 drug arrests in 2023 – just a few hundred more than the 3,101 drug arrests in Singapore.
And according to Shanmugam, drug arrests in Singapore surged 10% in 2023 – suggesting that perhaps the threat of death is failing to act as a deterrent to crime.
“It’s a fight that you never say you’ve won,” Shanmugam says.
“It’s a continuous work in progress.”
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