The Discretionary Death Penalty for Drug Couriers in Singapore: Four Challenges

• Main Author: CHEN, Siyuan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Misuse of Drugs Act; Discretionary Death Penalty; Presumption of Innocence; Privilege against Self-Incrimination; Newton Hearing; Prosecutorial Discretion; Singapore; Asian Studies; Law and Society; State and Local Government Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1534; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/3486/viewcontent/DiscretionaryDeathPenaltyDrugCouriersSingapore_2016_Siyuan.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In 2012, Singapore amended its Misuse of Drugs to give courts hearing capital drug trafficking cases the discretion to replace the default death penalty with life imprisonment and caning, provided that the accused person can show that he was merely a drug courier and the prosecution certifies that h...