Singapore’s Serious About Smuggling
Just under two years ago, I was in Singapore and wrote this:
True, the arrivals form seemed a tad unsubtle in its boldfaced announcement of DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKERS UNDER SINGAPORE LAW.
I remembered that arrival form today when I heard they executed a man for heroin smuggling.
It’s a weird little city-state, Singapore. Very friendly people, but a government that just does not fuck around.
December 2nd, 2005 at 7:22 am
we’ve been hearing so much about australians with drugs getting into trouble overseas lately that i began to grow tired of hearing about it. i mean, if there’s a country with the death penalty for drug smuggling and you actually DON’T want to die, then i would have thought that was enough reason to not do it.
when it came to about lunchtime today i was thinking about the execution. the guy was smuggling heroin, so i can understand that it’s not a recreational 1 time drug and it does ruin lives.
i couldn’t help, though, to feel a little bit sad that someone was executed.
executed.
i know it happens all the time and it’s just not in the news, but i just find it so… full on that it can actually be a government policy in this day and age.
i had to do a debate in college ‘for’ the death penalty, so i understand the rationalisation, but i just hate the fact that we have that power to take life from others.
yeah.