Death penalty’s key role in drug war


THE city-state is waging a war against drugs, and thousands will suffer if the country does not put up a fight or loses the war, said Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam.

Delivering a ministerial statement in Parliament on May 8 on Singapore’s drug control approach, he cited several drug-related crimes here that resulted in the deaths of people at the hands of their loved ones who had abused drugs.

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