Capital punishment number3

What are your own views on capital punishment? In what circumstances( if any) can the death penalty be justified?

Capital punishment is regarded as the death penalty. I feel that capital punishment in Singapore is used correctly and effectively to a large extent.

Many may feel that Singapore is too hard on criminals and impose capital punishment on them. But that is actually allowing their feelings and emotions to creep in, preventing them from having a clear and objective view on the punishments meted out. Advocates of anti-capital punishment are only time and again using emotional language to lighten the seriousness of the crimes the offenders have made, deeming Singapore as cruel and unfeeling.

This is not entirely true.

In the cases of murder, the offender is usually given the death penalty. This is done after taking the consideration the right of the offender to live; the impact on the offender and his family, versus the right of the victim’s family to see justice done. The government also have to take into consideration the safety of the general public. Capital punishment is deemed as a violation of human rights, but again, the murderer has already violated the right of the victim to live.

Where drugs are concerned, drug traffickers will only be sentenced to death when the trafficker smuggles more than 15g of PURE heroine into the State. It must be known that it is pure heroine, and 15g of pure heroine can actually be made into 750g of street heroine, much more than a person can actually consume personally. As such, these high amounts will be taken as an attempt to paddle drugs to others in the country. Capital punishment is thus needed to deter people from forming drug syndicates in Singapore, making this country a highly socially safe place to live in. We then do not need to suffer the backlash of drug syndicates making their presence known.

Some might feel drug traffickers who traffic drugs just to earn a living should not be sentenced to death because it is their circumstances that force them to do that. However, one should not place all the blame on circumstances. Despite saying that, I still recognize the fact that more can be done to prevent more people from potentially falling into that route of no return. We need to adopt a multi-pronged approach to cut down crime rates, with capital punishment included. Deterrence is needed, with education working hand in hand so that we can successfully prevent crimes.

posted by GRACECHIA @ 5:49 PM