Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ... [et al.]
Many countries in Asia, including Malaysia, impose the death penalty for nonviolent crimes, including drug related crimes. Capital punishment is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent. It has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other punishments. Every death sentence is a...
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| author | Sapian, Aizuddin Abdul Manaf, Azman Zainal Abidin, Siti Aisyah Mustafa, Nurmifatul Shuhadah |
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| description | Many countries in Asia, including Malaysia, impose the death penalty for nonviolent crimes, including drug related crimes. Capital punishment is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent. It has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other punishments. Every death sentence is an affront to human dignity, every execution a symptom of, not a solution to, a culture of violence. However, the government holds a different view. It reserves the death penalty for those who carry, say, above fifteen grammes of heroin because of the harm that they would have had on the populace, if the drug had been disseminated. This reservation strengthens the government's stand on the import of dangerous quantities of drugs. It is a message to the drug offenders, who would always attempt to maximise their profits by carrying more drugs on each trip, not to entertain such ideas. It is prevention within deterrence, minimising the damage. It is a sort of damage control. |
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| spelling | uitm-328982024-10-23T09:46:46Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32898/ Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ... [et al.] Sapian, Aizuddin Abdul Manaf, Azman Zainal Abidin, Siti Aisyah Mustafa, Nurmifatul Shuhadah Drug habits. Drug abuse Offenses against public morals Many countries in Asia, including Malaysia, impose the death penalty for nonviolent crimes, including drug related crimes. Capital punishment is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent. It has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other punishments. Every death sentence is an affront to human dignity, every execution a symptom of, not a solution to, a culture of violence. However, the government holds a different view. It reserves the death penalty for those who carry, say, above fifteen grammes of heroin because of the harm that they would have had on the populace, if the drug had been disseminated. This reservation strengthens the government's stand on the import of dangerous quantities of drugs. It is a message to the drug offenders, who would always attempt to maximise their profits by carrying more drugs on each trip, not to entertain such ideas. It is prevention within deterrence, minimising the damage. It is a sort of damage control. 2009 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32898/1/32898.pdf Sapian, Aizuddin and Abdul Manaf, Azman and Zainal Abidin, Siti Aisyah and Mustafa, Nurmifatul Shuhadah (2009) Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ... [et al.]. (2009) Degree thesis, thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA. <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/32898.pdf> |
| spellingShingle | Drug habits. Drug abuse Offenses against public morals Sapian, Aizuddin Abdul Manaf, Azman Zainal Abidin, Siti Aisyah Mustafa, Nurmifatul Shuhadah Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ... [et al.] |
| title | Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ... [et al.] |
| title_full | Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ... [et al.] |
| title_fullStr | Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ... [et al.] |
| title_full_unstemmed | Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ... [et al.] |
| title_short | Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ... [et al.] |
| title_sort | capital punishment for drug offenders in malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / aizuddin sapian ... [et al.] |
| topic | Drug habits. Drug abuse Offenses against public morals |
| url | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32898/ |