I WOULD like to protest in the strongest terms the proposal to abolish the death penalty (“Abolish death penalty” and “Weighing the death penalty” – Sunday Star, Aug 29).
As a lawyer, I feel that capital punishment should be maintained. Although human rights advocates have consistently shown statistics to prove that there is little deterrence when applying the death penalty, the same can be said of crimes punishable by imprisonment as well.
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