Makus, Ellen-Maria (2024) Mandatory Capital Punishment for Drug Offences in Singapore and its Accordance with International Human Rights Law. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
Lethal injections, hanging, electrocution, beheading, and gas chambers- only some of the gruesome execution methods practised around the world in the year 2023. Contrary to the modern human rights movement, the death penalty remains embedded in several regions of the world as a form of capital punishment. Singapore has fallen under particular scrutiny due to their strong retentionist stance and justifications for drug-related executions. Political response from international organisations such as the United Nations and Amnesty International has claimed Singapore’s executions for drug offences to be in violation of International Human Rights Law. The given research aims to examine the disparity between Singapore’s stance on its death penalty practice and the contrasting global denunciation of the latter. Relevant human rights instruments were analysed to answer the research question: Is Singapore’s use of the death penalty for drug offences justified under International Human Rights Law? The research concludes that while international human rights mechanisms advocate for the protection of fundamental human rights, their application is largely subject to interpretation and debate. While stating that the death penalty shall only be assigned for the most serious crimes with either lethal or extremely grave consequences, both the terms “most serious” as well as “extremely grave” are contestable to go beyond the classical case of intentional killing. Evidently, the eventual global abolition of the death penalty is desired, however, currently international human rights instruments and mechanisms do not permit it in general nor for drug offences.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | Belloir, A.C. |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2024 06:44 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2024 06:46 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/403 |
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