Analysing the reasons for the use of the death penalty in Singapore through Bentham’s utilitarianism : can the noose be loosened?

• Main Author: Priyanna Subramaniam
• Other Authors: Christopher Holman
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science::Political theory
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/140831
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Up until 2012, Singapore imposed a mandatory drug penalty for drug-related offences. The government claims that this use of death penalty produces a deterrence effect on future-offenders. However, recent studies have shown that the correlation between deterrence and capital punishment is ambiguous....