Human Writes: Malaysia's death penalty doesn’t work and we need to drop it

The value placed on human life can provide a marker of how much a society has progressed – or regressed. In the Philippines, the revival of the death penalty has led to thousands suspected of involvement with illegal drugs being controversially gunned down in the streets by police and vigilantes.

Championing this bloodbath is a self-confessed murderer: President Rodrigo Duterte. He recently admitted that he stabbed a person to death as a teen. (“Philippines president says he once stabbed someone to death”, Nov 10, The Guardian.)