While capital punishment may or may not have deterred would-be offenders from committing such offences, the indisputable fact is that the offenders are removed, never to be able to repeat their crimes. This should tilt the scales in favour of capital punishment, as society will be rid of a potential social menace permanently.
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Too absolute an argument and too sweeping a statement.
Anyway, do read the reply from the Law Ministry just above this article on the ST Forum link given above, which is (yet again) very arrogant in its tone…
Yap’s comment is a major slap in the face for the yellow ribbon project. Shame on them.
Learn from China and make corruption punishable by death
With improved policing techniques and as mores, circumstances and thinking per se change with time, it wld be necessary to revisit the death penalty, say, tri-annually, to examine if it is still relevant in all capital offences and if some capital offences cld be redefined/refined for greater justice to be done and to be seen to be done, human life in particular being sacred. For example, with more stringent/effective measures in place, a) cld the amt of drugs found on an offender be increased somewhat 4 it to attract the death penalty? b) cld the age limit itself be a factor 4 consideration of a life sentence, namely, i) to increase it by 1 year ii) to revise death to life sentence: a) if young offender’s background is a huge contributory factor in his capital offence b) if, in the opinion of an independent panel, he has shown genuine remorse and is unlikely to re-offend; c) he/she will respond to and benefit from rehabilitation; and so on.
In gist, it is not the death penalty that shd be scrapped. Rather, it’s the type and nature of the capital offences that wld call 4 periodic reviews to save lives that wld be lost otherwise.
It’s easy enuff 2 hv a blanket death penalty for broadly defined offences. But human life is sacred, and it is of the essence that no stone is left unturned to save it, much work to be done notwithstanding.
In short, justice must be meted out with compassion even if it is aimed at curbing a social menace. Revisits to the death penalties for capital offences can only refine our justice ststem and improve it for it to be more humane and updated in line with human progress.
Not least, parliament shd play a pro-active role for periodic (bi- or tri-annual) public reviews of the capital punishment 4 young drug offenders so as to ensure their continued relevance in changing times.