Yeah, and your point is?

Singapore has one of the highest rates of execution.
For those of you who are against the death penalty, you may want to skip this posting. The rest of you.... read on as you will.

Singapore has executed two African men for drug smuggling after rejecting appeals for clemency by Nigeria's president, the UN and rights groups. Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi, 21, of Nigeria, and 35-year-old Okeke Nelson Malachy, a stateless African, were hanged at dawn.

A small group of activists held an overnight vigil outside the prison. Singapore has some of the strictest drugs laws in the world and a long history of ignoring pleas for clemency from foreign governments.

It works, we're one of the safest places in the world to live in, and I'm quite happy that we've gone our own way on this.

People may say we have little respect for the lives of those hung. But I say to you that those who paid the price have little respect for the families and communities who are forced to endure drug users.

The 2 men hung were trying to traffic in over a million dollars worth of heroin back in 2004. (I'm assuming this is in USD.) And Singapore sits at a confluence of many of the primary trade routes within the Golden Triangle. Considering that we're VERY open about the fact that drug smuggling via Singapore carries the death penalty, these men had over 2 years to make peace with their loved ones. Assuming they were loved. That's more than a lot of good people have.


No, we'll make no apologies about this.