The Mandatory Death Penalty and a Sparsely Worded Constitution

• Main Author: LEE, Jack Tsen-Ta
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Constitutionality; death penalty; drug trafficking; right to life; Singapore; Asian Studies; Constitutional Law; Human Rights Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/985; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/2937/viewcontent/MandatoryDeathPenalty_2011.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

It was not unexpected that the Singapore Court of Appeal would reaffirm the constitutionality of the mandatory death penalty for certain forms of drug trafficking in Yong Vui Kong v Public Prosecutor [2010] 3 S.L.R 489. ... The appellant made submissions based on Articles 9(1) and 12(1) of the Const...