27 Responses to “The Moratorium on the Mandatory Death Penalty campaign”

1. 

   george 3 April 2010

   I refer to your latest TOC TV on the top right-hand column of your website.  

   All the Chinese interviewed spoke only in Chinese while the two non-Chinese spoke in English.  This raises three important questions:  Are those interviewed Chinese Singaporeans?  If so, then what happened to the Govt’s half a century of bilingual policy under which the medium of instruction in our schools is English? Finally, is it TOC’s objective to encourage and get the Chinese in Singapore to speak only in Chinese?

         
2. 

   kixes 3 April 2010

   @ george
   Not at all, we aren’t trying to encourage anything language-wise! We were simply out to interview people on their views on the MDP, and for the purposes of getting the best possible answers out of them it just made sense to speak whatever they were more comfortable with. Many of them would have even preferred to speak more in dialect, but unfortunately we have limited skills in that department…
3. 

   booboo 3 May 2010

   TOC is a big boo boo. The MDP video only shows those that oppose it, and they can cut until a person who agrees with it was shown disagreeign with the death penalty. disgusting
4. 

   DUDE 10 May 2010

   Sadly speaking, today’s newpaper, 10th of may 2010, one of our MP say it is justiable as it saves alot more lives…. although i do not really agree with that
5. 

   booboo 11 May 2010

   Its not an MP, its the minister of law n 2nd minister for home affairs. its justified imho.
6. 

   RED-man 11 May 2010

   2 cents worth of thoughts into this topic. According to the Law minister, sending these people who deliver the drug to death without determine if they really make a profits out of it, does not make any sense!

   Take note, the real mastermind behind the scene will not deliver the drug themselve to singpore as they know very well the consequences of it. Thus, they would probably use tricks and threat to make some weak minded people to do their dirty work. When you sentence these people to death, it does not changes anything. It is like another chewing gum ruling to say banning the chewing gum will solve the problem which we know people are still bringing them in.

   It is just another PAP quick fix solution as usual, and not wanting to going into the hard way to solve the problem. These are the ministers we have in Singapore now. Yes, I agree killing one will save the thousand. Question is, did we kill the right one? Or we just pretends that we did?
7. 

   Jacqueline 14 May 2010

   TOC made a mistake in explaining the meaning of ‘mandatory’ to the public as seen in the videos. The word itself does not mean that beyond a certain weight of drugs, it is death penalty. If that is the case you can just call it ‘death penalty for drug trafficking’. The more correct definition is that offered by the NUS law students in the videos, that the word ‘mandatory’ just emphasises that there is no discretion given to the judge to decide whether to spare the accused, thereby making the death sentence mandatory.
8. 

   Anton 27 May 2010

   We need death sentances, because the fear of not having a second chance is enough to prevent a person on doing such crimes.
9. 

   Serge 4 June 2010

   Death sentences will not bring an end to murder and other serious crimes. And the death of a murderer does not bring the dead back to life. The death sentence is not an answer to the drug problem by any means and it is child like to assume that it will help resolve it. If anything, the problem is only worsening as Singapore ignores education about abuse and turns its back of assisting those who have become addicted. The government of Singapore fails to recognize that the only way to end drug smuggling is to end the use and the desire to use.
10. 

    pugdragon 6 July 2010

    Apart from posting in forums & educating more people about the inhumane cruelty & stripping of human rights in death penalties, is there any way for us to get death penalty banned or stopped? It’s barbaric & I’m surprised the gov who harps on being 1st world & competitive still supports this 3rd world, barbaric & inhuman practice so much.
11. 

    rockabyebaby 8 July 2010

    Are a BOGY man of LKY’s “one wrong that makes many convenient rights is absolutely LKY right”?
    As you are such a callous BOOBOO about precious human lives and A BIG BOOBOO of morally rights and wrongs when you wrote:

    “booboo 3 May 2010

    TOC is a big boo boo. The MDP video only shows those that oppose it, and they can cut until a person who agrees with it was shown disagreeign with the death penalty. disgusting”
12. 

    Alan Wong 27 July 2010

    The real issue at hand should be why should the Death Penalty be ‘Mandatory’ ? If it is already mandatory, do we even need the judge to carry out the sentencing ?

    We have been told time and again to become a more gracious society. But why can’t our govt be gracious enough to trust that our learned judges will be able to use their wise discretion to sentence the way they deem fit according to the mitigating circumstances of each case.

    Is it a case that when it comes to law,
    our Govt leaders knows better than our learned judges.
13. 

    Peter Sellers 25 September 2010

    TOC have you got a site to collect signatures for your campaign?

    I shall be happy to sign it.
14. 

    Jackson 30 March 2011

    Hi,

    So you guys are fine to have robber, rapist, killer to still be let alive even after they have robbed you, rape your girlfriend and kill your mom?
15. 

    Wilmington de real estate 13 May 2011

    Right. all at one site.