Death sentences traditionally have been applied for treason and murder. The first is where the impact on society is immense and the second is basically rooted on an eye for an eye though the legal eagles will deny it.
Other crimes must have similar impact. Drugs ruin the lifes of hundreds of people and one pusher can do a lot of damage. So the impact on society is high.
The death sentence does not apply for trafficking per se but for trafficking or possession of a significant quantity. In Singapore its 15 grams for heroin. 1/3 gram is already a fatal dose. 15 grams can go all the way to 450 straws. We get high grade heroin as we are close to the source. The US addicts get about 13% purity so the addiction and deaths are no so bad as asian addicts who do much purer stuff. Occasionally we get singapore students who studied overseas and on returning home claiming very proudly to have snorted this and that. If they tried the same dosage here, they would be dead.
Some years ago, a singaporean girl and boy who were studying in OZ returned to singapore and took the opportunity to go to JB for a snort. Not realising that dosage is of a higher purity, took it. People immediately noticed 2 zombies at the causeway, high as dogshit. They were both charged in court.
The issue is further compounded by the fact that we are so close to the source and we are a regional transport hub. Naturally there is big money to traffick thru singapore. If we did not have high penalty, we might see our kids and family members involved to such an extent, that our regular annual trips US/ Europe for holidays to various themes parks may have to be changed to visit their prisons to say high to our kids who are serving sentences overseas. With the death sentence, no singaporean is mad enough to try it except for an imbecile few.
Other crimes must have similar impact. Drugs ruin the lifes of hundreds of people and one pusher can do a lot of damage. So the impact on society is high.
The death sentence does not apply for trafficking per se but for trafficking or possession of a significant quantity. In Singapore its 15 grams for heroin. 1/3 gram is already a fatal dose. 15 grams can go all the way to 450 straws. We get high grade heroin as we are close to the source. The US addicts get about 13% purity so the addiction and deaths are no so bad as asian addicts who do much purer stuff. Occasionally we get singapore students who studied overseas and on returning home claiming very proudly to have snorted this and that. If they tried the same dosage here, they would be dead.
Some years ago, a singaporean girl and boy who were studying in OZ returned to singapore and took the opportunity to go to JB for a snort. Not realising that dosage is of a higher purity, took it. People immediately noticed 2 zombies at the causeway, high as dogshit. They were both charged in court.
The issue is further compounded by the fact that we are so close to the source and we are a regional transport hub. Naturally there is big money to traffick thru singapore. If we did not have high penalty, we might see our kids and family members involved to such an extent, that our regular annual trips US/ Europe for holidays to various themes parks may have to be changed to visit their prisons to say high to our kids who are serving sentences overseas. With the death sentence, no singaporean is mad enough to try it except for an imbecile few.
To sum it up, the death penalty will have to be introduced to cover more than drug trafficking in the future. Cos there will be crimes that have as large, if not , a worse impact, upon the general population as countries open up and triads and crime lords get more complex in their operation.
The only way to deal with them is to permannently put them out of action for good.