Han and her usual readers are well aware of the many unjust executions that have taken place in Singapore. The complaints about bureaucracy aren’t ‘stupid’—they

Han and her usual readers are well aware of the many unjust executions that have taken place in Singapore. The complaints about bureaucracy aren’t ‘stupid’—they’re actually quite important, since tempering the procedural aspect is more likely than eliminating the death penalty for possession, and they also might help to show Singaporeans the underlying bureaucratic tendencies that lead both to the use of the death penalty and the specific infelicities listed.