I *so* disagree with the death penalty...we don't have the right to judge and execute criminals, no matter what they have done...It's in humane and cruel. What if the person is innocent and people don't find that out till the person is dead?? The law is there to protect people's rights, and in the case of a criminal they should have the right to live...
Instead of letting the person live with the guilt of their actions everyday of their life, it seems to be a quick means of getting rid of them...I'm am so glad that Australia has abolished the death penalty...According to a radio program I was listening to a couple of weeks ago, we had the death penalty up until 1985, which wasn't too long ago...why do I know this? because of the execution of an Australian citizen, Van Nguyen in Singapore last November...Although I wouldn't class him as a martyr like the Australian media did the morning of 2nd Dec, I don't feel think Van Nguyen rightly deserved the death penalty for smuggling drugs into Singapore...mainly because it is unethical and against human rights, but also because much of the evidence shown in the Singaporean courts was questionable and the fact that there are far worse crimes in Singapore which go unnoticed today...I think a better solution would have been to make him pay for his crime and to have let him re-appeal his sentence and length of his jail term...
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Date: 2005-12-15 01:22 pm (UTC)Instead of letting the person live with the guilt of their actions everyday of their life, it seems to be a quick means of getting rid of them...I'm am so glad that Australia has abolished the death penalty...According to a radio program I was listening to a couple of weeks ago, we had the death penalty up until 1985, which wasn't too long ago...why do I know this? because of the execution of an Australian citizen, Van Nguyen in Singapore last November...Although I wouldn't class him as a martyr like the Australian media did the morning of 2nd Dec, I don't feel think Van Nguyen rightly deserved the death penalty for smuggling drugs into Singapore...mainly because it is unethical and against human rights, but also because much of the evidence shown in the Singaporean courts was questionable and the fact that there are far worse crimes in Singapore which go unnoticed today...I think a better solution would have been to make him pay for his crime and to have let him re-appeal his sentence and length of his jail term...