Singapore to execute female drug smuggler.

[Polarbear]

Singapore to execute woman on drugs charge for the first time in 20 years

Two things to discuss I'm thinking.

The death penaly for drug smuggling and the fact the news is harping on about it being a woman.

2nd bit first. In todays equal society does it matter if it's a man or a woman? I think not. The 2nd thing that is up for debate here, does the death penalty do any good?

As someone who has been to Singapore many times over the years I've seen it change, mostly for the better. When I first went there crime was rife, ladyboys ruled Bugis street, Change Alley was a wonderful place to shop and get mugged. There were brothels eveyrwhere and it was the hippy centre of the far east.

Lee Kuan Yew cleaned the place up in an unusual way. He made it illegal for males to have hair longer than collar length and killed the hippy culture practically overnight. Even foreiners had to have their hair short, I had to have mine cut when arriving at Changi airport one time or they wouldn't let me in.

Ever since then Singapore has had some draconian laws. The famouse one being 'no chewing gum' and of course public birching happened and still does (but now behind closed doors).

The result is probably the safeest and cleanest city state in the world but does that warrant the death penalty? I don't know.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66309347
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[stinkwheel]

A Singapore national so they knew the risk. Also 30kg of heroin, not a bit of weed or a few pills for her mates, that's indistrial scale dealing. How many people would that have killed either directly or indirectly? Probably over 100,000 deals by the time it's cut.

You'd have been jailed for life over here for that much heroin.
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[Easy-X]

Drug mule sentencing: I'd have to be convinced they acted 100% of their own volition, not conned or coerced into it.

Other than the incidental "it's a woman!" touched on in the article the main thing I took away from the article was "the death penalty does not deter crime."

1) Singapore is a largely crime free state. What magic are they using if it's not down to their severe sentencing?

2) Totally glossed over by the so-called experts: someone in prison or dangling from the end of a rope is no longer able to commit crimes against society.

What does then deter crime? Don't know. But we do know it's not catching and sentencing criminals
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[The Artist]

[grr666]

If they want to off her then that's fine with me. She knew the risk. I've taken drugs abroad before on a few occasions
in Europe. There have even been times I took too much to use it all and I've brought what I didn't use home again.
But when I've travelled to countries with MEGA stiff penalties for possession of drugs, I'm talking decades in prison,
death or public flogging then I've left my drugs at home. It's not difficult. I would have loved to watch the sun
set over the Indian Ocean puffing on a spliff sitting on a Maldivian beach but the threat of 20 years in prison was
enough for me to do without and just abuse the all inclusive bar instead. Thailand was another place that would
have locked me up for taking weed over when I went (it's legalised over there now so I might go back), same
with Singapore although it's not legal there yet. For that matter I doubt the US would have seen me smuggling
drugs over in anything but a negative light, nor New Zealand who spaz violently if you bring over an onion never mind
a bag of weed. I'm sure it's possible to sneak a little something through in all these places but it's not worth
the possibility of being caught at all. If you do it and you're caught then it's all on you I'm afraid.
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[jeremyr62]

As far as I know there isn't much evidence to support the theory that the death penalty does anything other than kill people, some of whom are guilty and some will be innocent. It certainly doesn't act a deterrent to violent crime. The septics like it cos it satisfies their warped desire for revenge.

[stinkwheel]

[Skudd]

I like the idea of public birching. That would be brilliant over here and a better deterrent than we have now, not that we actually have any deterrents.
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[Bhud]

They're getting cleverer with the clickbait, aren't they.
They already know very well what we think. But from framing the story this way, MSN and the like will get up or down clicks from people, even if they didn't read the article. Those who read it and feel inflamed by the sexism will write a comment. They know the game they're playing, and it's just a surprise how powerful the residual image of "journalism" is, after all this time.

[The Artist]

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[Nobby the Bastard]

It was 30g in the original story because I remember wondering how far an oz of smack would go.
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[Polarbear]

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Death to all drug dealers. drug addicts locked away until cleaned of the habit then released. if they reoffend then they get the death penalty too.
thats what id vote for.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

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well it would help ease the over population and global warming you lefties care so much about.
a win win situation really
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[Nobby the Bastard]

As Gove has admitted taking coke can we put him at the head of the queue?

After all, we should expect a higher standard from those we elect to pass legislation.

What party does he represent? Pretty sure he's not a lefty...
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[The Artist]

[grr666]

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