The execution of Abdul Kahat bin Othman last March 30 raises the question of the need for the death penalty. Read about it here: deathpenalty singapore sg
While the world is witnessing a positive shift towards progressive decriminalization in the shaping of drug policies and an accompanying decrease in drug-related executions, punishments for drug offences continue to be drastically disproportional and still too common in certain countries today.
have not carried out executions since 2013, in recent times there has been a sharp increase in the handing down of the sentence of the death penalty for drug-related offences. This is what has happened in the case of Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, who could be executed within days after an appeal court upheld the death sentence against him on Tuesday 29 March 2022.Despite the draconian and disproportional sentences it codifies – from imprisonment, strokes of the cane, and theIt is more often than not the case that those people caught committing drug offences are the lower-level dealers and individual users, while those at the top of the “totem pole” go unnoticed and unpunished. The burden of the focus on low-level offenders generally falls on more vulnerable and marginalized groups, which end up being the victims of an overwhelmed and obsolete criminal justice system. The demographics of people facing the death penalty for drug-related offences are remarkably similar the world over, whether it be Singapore, sub-Saharan Africa or the U.S.:
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