How effective is the death penalty in deterring crime? Amnesty International Malaysia showcased this stage play based on the story of Yong Vui Kong, a Malaysian sentenced to death in Singapore for drug trafficking (he escaped this when the law in Singapore changed).
WHEN Baby Freddie was kidnapped from his home three weeks ago, I felt a knot in my stomach and bile in my mouth. To take a child like that from his mother was a crime so heinous that I felt an urge to see the kidnappers suffer for what they had done. And a hanging was too good for them but that’s what they deserved.
Coincidentally, just the day before, the newspapers had reported that another set of kidnappers were sentenced to death after being found guilty of abductions in 2011, so such a punishment was within the law.
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