Hearing about the death of the woman who was brutally raped and violently attacked in New Delhi was one of the saddest and most disturbing moment of 2012 ...
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Indeed, we can take inspiration from United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon who, in his visit to Singapore in March this year said, “these are times of promise…more people are getting involved and changing the world”. We can take heart that in order to build a safer and more se...
He was then convicted and sentenced to death under the Mandatory Death Penalty stipulated in the Misuse of Drugs Act by High Court Judge Choo Han Teck on 4 February 2010. In his written judgement, Judge Choo stated “I did not find his [Cheong] testimony convincing and I was of the vie...
No, this shouldn’t be the case. All investigations must be thorough and leads provided by the ones who are being investigated must be followed up with, especially when it is a capital crime. Hanging drug mules will never solve the drug problem because the syndicates will forever prey ...
As I humbly thank everyone for the notes of encouragement, I would like to also express that whatever I have done is not enough to have caused this to happen. There are other international and regional events or even domestic reasons (i.e., within the Parliament) that might have contr...
Mr Shanmugam believes that to stop trafficking into Singapore mules should be hanged – to stop the syndicate bosses sending in more mules! If they should be hanged then so should drug users for without the demand there would be no supply. Denish Bhatia, son of a judge and one of the s...
5. Furthermore, more than two-thirds of the countries in the world have abolished the death penalty in law or in practice but Singapore remains one of the countries that still holds on to such a practice claiming that the death penalty is an effective deterrent on capital offences. Ho...
“Substantive cooperation” is defined as “Substantively assisting in CNB’s operations to disrupt drug trafficking activities within or outside of Singapore”, which may include, for example, the provision of information leading to the arrest or detention or prosecution of any person inv...
a) The Singapore government has argued that the death penalty is an effective deterrent to serious crimes. However, there is no reliable evidence, locally nor internationally, to show that it is any more effective than other forms of punishments. Based on numerous studies, criminologi...
