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This guy set his wife on fire, and she died, and the courts gave him a 20-yr sentence which was considered an "excessive punishment" http://www.straitstimes.com
by hellofunk 10y ago
This guy set his wife on fire, and she died, and the courts gave him a 20-yr sentence which was considered an "excessive punishment" http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/man-admits-killing-ex-girlfriend-by-setting-her-on-fire http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/man-admits-killing-ex-...
- notahacker 10y agoA cursory search reveals that he was charged of "culpable homicide not amounting to murder" on the grounds that he was "suffering from an abnormality of mind ... which substantially impaired his mental responsibility for the commission of the offence", and his appeal against the 20 year sentence failed. http://www.singaporelaw.sg/sglaw/laws-of-singapore/case-law/free-law/court-of-appeal-judgments/15742-lim-ghim-peow-v-publicprosecutor-2014-sgca-52 http://www.singaporelaw.sg/sglaw/laws-of-singapore/case-law/... So yes, Singapore doesn't impose the same mandatory life or death sentences on the mentally ill, but I'm not sure that helps your argument...
- hellofunk 10y agoI think you will find in general that drug offenders are typically sentenced more strictly than violent offenders in Singapore. That's my main argument, sorry for the tangent.