sls backup article reading, (Wednesday, August 25, 2010 / 7:15 AM)
S'pore justifies mandatory death penalty for drug traffickers
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
DPA
Singapore's law minister justified the city-state's tough stance in imposing the mandatory death penalty for drug traffickers, arguing it would be wrong if they got off cheaply because of mitigating factors like youth, a media report said Monday.
Minister K Shanmugam was referring to the pending case of Malaysian Yong Vui Kong, 22, who was sentenced to death for smuggling about 47 grams of heroin in 2007, but challenged the constitutionality of the ruling.
Although Yong was young, it would
send a wrong signal to let him go, Shanmugam said Sunday, the Straits Times newspaper reported.
"We are sending a signal to all the drug barons out there: Just make sure you choose a victim who is young, or a mother of a young child, and use them as the people to carry the drugs into Singapore," the minister said. .................
sacrificing the life of a youth,just to justify a stance against drug trafficking.
for public policy,for the greater good?
he looks so ordinary.he could be my classmate in jc or law school ( ironically).heck,he is even wearing the overrated plaid pattern that is fashionable now.given other circumstances..there are so many more things that he could be.bet it wouldnt stand the
anti puke test. **test by Judge A ( an anecdote from lovely oxford law lecturer Mindy Chen) secretly abides to...to show the judges are humans and dont have holy light shining out of their every orifice.unless you are Lord Denning of course.
