Death Sentence Is Brutal?  

syankee525,

I am glad for your response and do encourage you to enlighten another fellow US member here about death sentence in your country.

Like you, I am with you that jails are for criminals who have another chance with the real world or who could be re-educated and another chance to start a new life. I just cannot speak for those cruel and regardless killers and drug traffickers who brings harmful substances to fellow mankind.

Yet, it is sad that some authorities do not see eye to eye in justice today and I just cannot understand the reasons here. Just what is so barbaric about it, when acts of these perpetrators are atrociously unspeakable.

Sad, isn't it?

most people dont know when you are doing life, they live better then people who arent in jail. and they also can work and make money in jail. and also if more people like at the number those who kills will kill again.
they shouldnt be given any chance at all because thier victims didnt have a chance or the choice to die or live.

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tskmjk55,

I just could not help to agree with you more on this one sentence that said it all.

I am for it and damn the side that's against it when it is a necessary justice.

Take care and I hope there will be a learning curve here.

Have a nice day.

Did you notice where the OP was from? And they are lecturing us on the death penalty???

Mike,

My exact sentiments here as I am really for the capital punishment here.

Frankly, it is just really a waste of resources especially tax payer's hard earned monies to coddle them and worst release them into our midst. It is just unthinkable here.

Have a nice day.

P.S.

Thanks for some clarity below too.

yeh...I re read with a little more of a coherant set of eyes and brain...I was wrong in the way I responded. my apologies.

Uh...X...I think they are FOR capital punishment...

"I feel that this mother would not have to experience such an ordeal if the capital punishment had been in place with this killer being put away for good in the first place."

xfahctor,

I am surprised that you are so conclusive here and if I may just ask if you could kindly let me know at which part of my posts did I advocate for the ABOLISHING of the death sentence or otherwise capital punishment?

I am so sorry that you have very little knowledge of what I am trying to say here and perhaps that's my lack of eloquence here.

Or, is it the other way round?

Anyway, I will let the rest here to be the better judge of things.

Aye?

P.S.

Drats!

I just cannot help that I am unable to assist saving some embarrassments here. Hope there will better apps available next time.

Well, I guess I do sit corrected. I was still on my first cup of coffee and still under the influence of the vicodin (prescribed of course for a condition I recently aquired).
My sincerest apoligies to you.

Hi X.,

I suppose you are having another terrible bouts and I do hope that you will get well soon.

Anyway, there's no issue with me here and I am just rambling a bit here. I know that my country has the reputation of being a "Fine" country but I suppose there are causes for those rigid laws. However, the country will not be what it is today had the laws been laxed and corrupted.

I think I need to clarify that Singapore like most other countries who imposes capital punishment for drug related offenses, will only execute drug traffickers, kingpins and syndicate members. Drug abusers in possession will only be mete with harsh jail sentences. I just do not see any issue with this and most of the time the Narcotics Bureau (one of the best in Asia) will have enough proof for the sentence to be mete out.

As for the chewing gum issue, I feel that the government is doing it for safety consideration. In the past, there were a lot of problems with people littering chewed gums onto the Mass Railway Transit trains and there were some incidence where these gums actually found its way into trains door grooves. These has cause many inconveniences and even have trains being stuck at the station for indefinite periods. This is not only inconvenient to commuters but dangerous as well, as all it takes is a computer hitch and we will have a major incident.

If I may just add here, by far most of these bylaws have been carefully weighted before any implementation, it may seem at odds or a joke to the rest of the world but I can assure you that it is really of relevancy. I am not sure if you have had the experience of visiting Singapore but let me assure you that it will really be worth your while. With the International Resort completed I am sure you will really be impressed with this tiny red dot, don't just listen but make a trip to experience it yourself.

Again, I wish that you get well soon and have a nice day in the meantime.

I wont go in to alot of the laws where your at, I don't live there and as such I probably dont have much of a right to an opinion on them , whether I agree or not (though chewing gum??/really??) anyway. thank you for the well wishes, i'll get over what I have eventualy, it is temporary, though quite painfull, more of an inconvenience than anything and certainly not life threatening....ahhh..gotta love old age, lol. Anyway, again, please accept my apologies and have an awesome day.

Hi Karen,

I think given the fact that there has already been so much progress in the field of criminology and especially forensic science, it would just be fair to say that the margin of error or the chances of a falsely accused or wrongly sentenced is just very slim.

I am sure that every defendant will be given ample opportunity to prove their innocence with every available established legal system and mechanism. I am just curious to the point of bewilderment how some governments do not see the need of capital punishment, especially when it is so necessary or rather justified.

Like you, I just do not feel that any law should tolerate or even grant these perpetrators who just have totally disregard others' lives at all, like this sadistic killer in the article here.

Take care and have a nice day.

lindiebiz,

My exact sentiments here.

I am sure that the case here, along with many others who have been found guilty should be put away for good. However, I am just appalled with these governments that put away the capital punishment and release these hardcore criminals back into the public to repeat their crimes and do more harm.

I just loose my perspective of true justice when I read such unsettling accounts where lives are literally destroyed and lost.

Makes you wonder if all that education had gone down the gutters for those sitting at the office, doesn't it?

Hi zed_k4,

Like you, I am really for the capital punishment and necessary, especially when I've witnessed countries benefitting from it.

I just do not see the need for tolerance on crimes similar or even worst than this account here. Also, for drug trafficking, too. Yet, it is really both baffling and bewildering for me to find some countries or States actually against death sentences.

Let's hope that they will reconsider the capital punishment after all these revelations and make the community a moderated and safer one.

Have a nice day.

Oh yeah.. drug cases in Singapore are a big no-no. I'm against drugs too.. so I think you have a point there in your sentencing.

cloudwatcher,

My exact sentiments here and I just cannot understand the logic of excluding it. In all fairness, I felt that it has done much good than harm for the society and the community as well.

As for the prison issue, that being part of the legal infrastructure, I just feel that it cannot be independent or privatized to run on its own. I can understand the accounts of some inappropriate inmate accounts, but I feel that they are happening because of certain corruption within the system. It is just a different light, if you know what I mean.

Take care and have a nice day.

P.S.
Thank you for the compliment.

Skysuccess, I was not suggesting that prisons should be privatised or independent. That could not work. As you say, prisons are part of the legal system of the country and therefore must be run by the country (the government).

However, I do believe prisons could be self-supporting in that the prisoners have to work. Prisons can become manufacturing plants and the profits from the sale of the items used to pay the upkeep of the prison. Prisoners can also work in growing crops to feed the prisoners and staff. I know there would have to be certain precautions in place in maximum security prisons, but I'm sure they could be put to work in some way. The majority of prisoners could be gainfully employed.

I have been told there are some self-supporting, or at least largely self-supporting prisons in USA where the prisoners work normal working hours. Honest taxpayers should not have to pay to keep prisoners in better living standards than many of them enjoy.

cloudwatcher,

I am sorry for not getting where you were coming at as it is a little difference in my country.

Where I come from, our prisons does set up learning workshops and work like handicrafts, furniture and even have academic programs to rehabilitate, learn, upgrade, pick up a skill and hope that it will help them assimilate back into society when they are released back into the world.

However, the remunerations or proceeds are actually being credited back into the inmates bank accounts instead, so that they could have the necessary finances when they are out. The legal system here is quite a tight outfit and you can be assured that these facility are quite bare and adequate. It is even audited.

I do agree with you that honest taxpayers should not have to pay to keep prisoners in better living standards than many of them enjoy and I can assure you that the jail here is really not "enjoyable".

Thanks for the clarification here.

learn2earn,

Well, this is certainly another perspective looking at this issue.

I hope that your government will see the necessity and benefit at the end of the day. There's just so much it can do for the law and order of a country and keep these crimes at bay.

Let's hope that the other quarter will really see the light.

rameshkumaar57,

Corruption is rampant and there's no way of stopping it if people in government do not evolve within themselves and realize what they are doing to their country.

Let's hope that whatever they have decided now will rear its ugly head and bite them back to wake them up.

I wonder at the end of the day, if revolutions in the past is a justified cause.

Have a nice day.