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how to draw the line? If you're well off, you get hanged. If you're poor, you get life imprisonment. If you have a broken or unhappy family background, you get life. If you're doing it for the money only, you get hanged?
Can SG govt say, "Okay, we'll spare this young man as an exception. We won't show mercy to anyone else after this" They can't because the next guy who gets caught, will say it's unfair for them to get hanged when the previous guy wasn't hanged.
The drug dealers and kingpins aren't fools. Once they know that the courts are able to exercise flexibility, they'll start using smugglers who fit the criteria.
Can SG govt say, "Okay, we'll spare this young man as an exception. We won't show mercy to anyone else after this" They can't because the next guy who gets caught, will say it's unfair for them to get hanged when the previous guy wasn't hanged.
The drug dealers and kingpins aren't fools. Once they know that the courts are able to exercise flexibility, they'll start using smugglers who fit the criteria.