Singapore conducted its first execution of a woman in 19 years on Friday and its second hanging this week for drug trafficking despite calls for the city-state to cease capital punishment for drug-related crimes.
Singapore hanging its weight on an antiquated, inhumane justice system while the world evolves towards rehabilitative models is downright disturbing. Death penalties for drug offenses are an archaic, blunt instrument to tackle a complex issue, punishing the vulnerable pawns rather than the kingpins of the trade.
Nobody is forcing you to sell drugs in Singapore…
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And thus I wouldn’t do it if I 100% knew that doing that would lead to my death…
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30 grams of pure heroin are certainly not a personal dose…
No one is forcing Singapore to execute those who the rest of the world views at petty criminals.
We’re not talking about drug kingpins here.
So? Singapore doesn’t want any drugs in the country, and put up draconian laws. Just don’t break those laws.
If I tell you that I will brutally murder you if you come to my house wearing a red tie, and you do that… Your death is at least partly on you. Because you had absolutely no good reason to do that.
There is absolutely no positive outcome to selling or consuming heroin. Just don’t do it. It’s not a hard rule to follow…
I think you’re lost. Fascists aren’t really too welcome on Lemmy to my knowledge.
Barbarians.
