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P.S. Caning doesn't solve everything, even in Singapore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_pun
by dalke 10y ago
P.S. Caning doesn't solve everything, even in Singapore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapor...
> Capital punishment is legal in Singapore. The city-state had the second highest per-capita execution rate in the world between 1994 and 1998
Including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_(Singapore) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_(Singapore... :
> The statute's penal provisions are draconian by most nations' standards, providing for long terms of imprisonment, caning, and capital punishment.
If caning is so effective, why is there also capital punishment? Surely that will take away decades of the "prime" years of someone's life. Like Van Tuong Nguyen, killed at age 25 for drug trafficking.