Rehabilitation is out as dead people can’t be rehabilitated. And, if we apply the death penalty as a deterrent, should we make the death as long and as painful as possible. And, oh yes, the deterrent would be more effective if the execution is carried out in public. We should perhaps revert to the very effective practice of public hanging, drawing and quartering, Or, perhaps, chopping off an arm and a leg. Without anesthesia, of course.

Yes, if we’re going to kill people, let’s do it the Singapore way – in extremis! Anything worth doing is worth doing well.