Soon as I saw this thread I just knew it would be a highly emotive issue... 70 posts in a single day speaks for itself.

I'll be straight - I'm also against capital punishment. However I strongly favour corporal punishment, which was law for certain offences in WA including most sex crimes, up to sometime in the mid 80's, upon which all corporal punishment penalties were repealed.

I also believe that as long as just one convicted terrorist is set free or given anything less than the death penalty in the same countries that execute drug traffickers then perhaps there is a legitimate call for criticism of these countries' laws.

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Bali Bomber = Quiky death while having something cheap to eat.
Drug Dealer = Slow and expensive way to die feeding your veins.

Not defending the Bali bombers but bombers and drug dealers equally guilty of a crime. The drug dealer crime is more insidious as he prays on someone week and sometimes confused soul wanting to feel better.

Which also leads onto other problems, junkie fucks jumping through my window to steal my VCR, etc... I wouldn't have drawn a link between those two crimes myself but there's no doubt this guy was begging to get caught.

Again, it's natural selection..

If they can Kill someone over Drugs They shoudl start killing for Rapes and People who Touch kids, They shoudl also be under Death peneltiy..

but as some people have said do the crime u pay.

Yes, they certainly should.

Whats the punishment for Rape / Murder / Wife beaters/ Peodo's in Singapore and such countries?

Mike?

I agree there, if its good enough to hang drug dealers, its good enough to kill these bastards. BUT make them suffer. Peodophiles should get the most severe, brutal punishments one can imagine IMHO. NOTHING worse than depriving an 8 y/o child of their life or beating the shit out of your GF / wife / daughter.

If people are going to bandy around terms like natural selection I suggest that actually know what they are talking about. The sad fact is that many of these junkies have already reproduced, passing some pretty dodgy genes on to the next generation so no selection there I'm afraid.

Mat I'm glad you took my point. Many of the drugs society deems legal or "soft" can do just as much damage as the "hard" ones, weed, alcohol and speed being some prime examples. Are beer companies murders? What about makers of cheap sherry???? I have learnt not to be so quick to judge until walking a few miles in others shoes.

And to all those with pitchforks and flaming torches in hand, braying for blood, would you be so willing to support the death penalty if someone you knew or a member of your family was up for the noose? No, didn't think so. And it can happen as the people we know and love can also make stupid mistakes sometimes, especially when they are in desparate situations.

Look it is a difficult debate and I don't pretend to have all the answers but I think the bottom line is that by killing people society stoops to the level of a murderer.

And if you take an eye for an eye, the world ends up blind, then you get the blind leading the blind............. and what am I saying again???????

I'm not too sure about paedos and wife beaters but punishment is harsh for sure. Definitely a long jail term and caning for paedos.

Rape is punishable with extremely long jail terms and many many strokes of the cane, usually 24 strokes and terms of over 20 years.

Murder is punishable by death as well. There's a guy in the news currently being charged for the murder of his wife, cos his wife has been sleeping around. The prosecution is pushing for the death sentence.

In today's Straits Times:

Absolute Gold! Could not agree more!