That said, I tend to waver a lot on the death penalty and its applications. There is certainly a strong case for it - and a strong case against it. To kill a person is to take away everything they are, and everything they might be from the world. That is a very bad thing. But some crimes are so horrible, and involve such death and the destruction of innocents that the death penalty seems like a not unreasonable recourse.
Sometimes it seems fitting, other times I believe nothing can justify it...
I can never decide.
Actually, I'm not totally against death penalty. IMO death penalty should be carried out in cases where people committed mass murders such as the bombings of pubs and restaurants in Bali by a group of terrorists in 2005 & 2002 that killed a lot of Indonesians, Australians and more, or like what happened in London and Spain. These people are so dangerous and they deserve death penalty (although it doesn't guarantee that such horrible acts will stop happpening in the future). But in the case of Nguyen, the death penalty cannot be justified. What he did was wrong, yes and for that he had to be punished. But not death penalty! He was so young and he didn't even have a criminal record. Didn't the government of Singapore take that into considerations before they decided to hang him?
I heard the news two days before the day of his execution. And when I heard the news of his execution on Friday morning it really disturbed me and I got so sick I decided not to go to work that day.
