Singapore conducts two more executions

It's up to the country and it's people to determine what they believe is right for them. One has to be an idiot to bring drugs into Singapore, particularly someone from Singapore, who KNOWS the punishment for getting caught.

Good for them. These days, we need to conserve resources and oxygen. Removing two death dealers from the gene pool is a noble deed. If only more countries would follow suit...

Whatever the view on capital punishment, fact is that drugs are widely available in Singapore. Just a bit pricier and lower quality.....

So not sure the deterrence is working all that well.

If the man was severely handicapped mentally, then he should have been given a lengthy prison sentence. Too late now, but it’s pitiful to think about his final thoughts.

Well there is a Tourist don’t go area. Handicapped or accidentally used by underhand means, your dead. Luckily my ideal destinations don’t include a country that kills people.

Wrong country for Kalwant paaji to bring drugs into.

He could have gone to Canada where his brethren from Punjab control the drug trade. Anyone who has followed the lower Mainland gang conflict will understand what I am talking about.

Do you think he might have been a mule? There have been reports of people carrying who didn't know they were carrying. Impossible to prove or disprove, wouldn't you say?

Their country, their rules.

Singapore executes rapists, killers and drug dealers. It is the ultimate punishment for committing these completely unforgivable crimes. Saves a lot of money for the Singaporean taxpayers, too.

Luckily my ideal destinations don’t include a country that kills people.

I guess you must be avoiding Japan?

Luckily my ideal destinations don’t include a country that kills people.

That means you're boycotting Japan, and most of Asia. And the Mideast, and Africa, and so on.

Stormcrow- if you read about the story you will see that these two were not just unwitting mules. They were fully involved in the trafficking of heroin for purpose of sale. They had 9 years of appeals and finally executed. The world is a better place without them in it.

Singapore hanged two drug traffickers Thursday in what campaigners condemned as a "shameful and inhuman punishment", taking to four the number of executions in the city-state since March.

Excellent. Keep Singapore safe for my next visit.

There is a sign, clearly posted at Arrivals:

Death to Drug Traffickers...if you don't like it, " Don't Go There ", and I was there in 1996?

I’m sure hanging shoplifters would be an effective deterrent too - does that justify the implementation of capital punishment for such a crime?

Nihon

As above, plenty of drugs in Singapore. so death penalty not an effective deterrent. Just makes it more profitable for the dealers.

’Im sure hanging shoplifters would be an effective deterrent too - does that justify the implementation of capital punishment for such a crime?

Capital punishment used to be the "law" for any and all crimes committed, and it was known by everyone as well. Not to mention that it was around a hell of a lot longer than what system(s) we have today.

Then someone came up with the idea that killing people for any and all crimes was "barbaric" and instituted a penal system, and guess what happened? Oh it continues to today.

Crime exploded and has never stopped. So yes, throughout most of human history, capital punishment was in fact a very large and effective deterrent to crime. But now we are a more "humane" a "gentle" society.

I've lived in S'pore on and off my whole life and everyone I knew, understood not to mess with the drug trafficking laws. But, yeah, executing a mentally disabled person for that is pretty wrong and needs to reexamined.

The two executed today wont traffic drugs anymore so it's an effective deterrent

No matter what you say to try to justify it, capital punishment is an irreversible/incompensable sentence carried out by a fallible judicial system and is therefore immoral and unethical.

No matter what you say to try to justify it, capital punishment is an irreversible/incompensable sentence carried out by a fallible judicial system and is therefore immoral and unethical.

You're saying if it's carried out by an infallible judicial system it would be moral and ethical.

That's dumb.

This is a subject that will continue to be argued for as long it exists. Taking the last breath out of any living thing is Ugly, and Inhumane regardless of reason on in many cases NO reason.

When a state or a human decides to end a life they are just as guilty and ugly as the killer or murderer.

NO one has the right to end a life.

Then life imprisonment, which would be the next-most severe penalty, isn't a deterrent either. So should we abolish that, too?

Sorry, but I don't understand why, if a given punishment is not a deterrent, the answer is to implement a less serious punishment.

Yes, happens to be less serious punishment but that's not exactly what they're saying.

Theyre saying/advocating humane or more humane punishment.

Given the popularity among mass shooters of taking one's own life in preference to the certainty of longterm incarceration suggests that the latter is less inviting. Japan's method seems to be to imprison them for many years of alternating hope and despair possibly resulting in remorse, and then hang 'em.

You're saying if it's carried out by an infallible judicial system it would be moral and ethical.

The irreversibility of a sentence might be the immoral aspect, as it leaves no room for rectifying error.

If you're dumb enough to traffic drugs through those nations, your brain isn't worth preserving. They're pretty clear about it at all points of entry and exit.

Little a bit overkill

USNinJapan2Today  04:42 pm JST

No matter what you say to try to justify it, capital punishment is an irreversible/incompensable sentence carried out by a fallible judicial system and is therefore immoral and unethical.

Interesting statement. I see any form of incarceration, not just a death penalty, as being irreversible/incompensable. How to you reverse or compensate a person incarcerated for years or decades? And all judicial systems are fallible, because they rely on human beings to function, and humans are fallible. By that reasoning, all judicial systems are immoral and unethical. But without a judicial system, we can not have a civilized society based on the rule of law. Seems to me that all you're really saying is that you're against capital punishment. Which of course is fine of course. I just don't buy those reasons.

"We urge the Singaporean authorities to immediately stop this latest wave of hangings and impose a moratorium on executions as a step towards ending this shameful and inhuman punishment," said the group's Emerlynne Gil.

I am guessing Singaporean authorities are not going to listen to Emerlynne.

Well done Singapore.

Every country should follow suit.

And what happens when unscrupulous baggage handlers use other people's luggage for transportation of contraband across international boarders? This has happened and only recently.