YOURSAY | ‘Until ‘enthusiastic officers’ are removed, no conviction involving death penalty is safe.’
Mission Accomplished: “Thou shalt not kill” - which side of the coin do you favour? The alleged killer or the authorities?
Even one innocent life condemned to a death sentence and saved - this reason is good enough to reconsider the death sentence.
To err is human. Therefore, as fellow humans, we shall not play God. Let us abolish the death sentence, which is barbaric. Leave the final judgement to our Almighty.
Cogito Ergo Sum: The singular point that is highlighted in the story is the role of “enthusiastic police officers” in getting a conviction.
This is not justice. This is a corrupt system that is bent on ensuring a steady conviction rate without regard to justice. And it is still going on. Planting of evidence is still rampant in order to justify action.
In light of these incidences, there must be an immediate halt to the death penalty. Until these “enthusiastic officers” are removed, no conviction is safe.
David Dass: This was a good story about the Sessions Court judge and the defence lawyer who ultimately became a judge.
Criminal lawyers are familiar with over-enthusiastic police officers wanting to improve their case by fabricating evidence.
In the US, more sophisticated investigative techniques and DNA testing have resulted in many convictions being reversed. Unfortunately, many of those wrongly convicted had already been executed.
The death penalty is about retribution. Not about rehabilitation. It says that the crime was so horrible and the criminal beyond redemption that death was the only way forward.
Most of those waiting to be executed are drug traffickers.
They have been convicted under a law that deems them traffickers when they are found with more than a certain amount of a prohibited drug and requires the judge to impose a mandatory death sentence.
Circumstances that may mitigate the offence are not relevant. Most are mules, many addicts themselves. The drug lords are never caught.
World opinion has shifted. The death sentence is considered morally wrong.
The emphasis is on rehabilitation. It takes a more compassionate view of humanity and postulates that no man is beyond redemption. The death sentence is so final and irreversible.
SSDhaliwal: It is better to let 1,000 guilty people go than to hang one innocent person. Miscarriages of justice happen all the time, even in the US, due to dirty cops and planted evidence.
Imposing a jail sentence would allow the prisoner to exhaust all appeals that may lead to an acquittal.
Anonymous 2411361459930771: May God's blessings be upon former judges Jagjit Singh and Mah Weng Kwai for defending and assisting the weak and the defenceless.
How could the police officers tell a blatant lie which could have ended the lives of the accused?
Eagle: The panel is talking about the possibility of mistakes by judges, prosecutors and police. So these are the areas we need to pay attention to, not the penalty.
The biggest person here is the judge. He is the one who decides whether the person is guilty or not. So if he is no good at his job, he ought to be removed.
It is strange for the ex-judges to blame the sentence but not themselves.
Anonymous_1371465729: The problem highlighted here is with crooked law enforcement officers, not the law. If officers are incompetent or dishonest or seek kickbacks, no system can work, with or without a law.
Your argument against capital punishment is lopsided. Without death penalty it also means those responsible for the deaths of Altantuya Shaariibuu, Kevin Morais, Teoh Beng Hock, et cetera, can escape the gallows.
ABC123: Keep the death penalty. But impose very strict conditions and high barriers before it can be applied.
For example, there has to be strong scientific evidence that a person is guilty. It can’t be just based on human testimony because humans can make errors.
Determined Sarawakian: ABC123, keeping the death penalty but restricting its use will never suffice.
Firstly, you talk about policies and procedures. Secondly, you definitely need an unbiased committee to oversee cases that will be deemed punishable by executions.
Finally, humanpower - Malaysia's enforcement authorities are not 100 percent professional.
Just look at some of the corrupted cases, the deaths in custody, the answers still to be resolved for Teoh Beng Hock’s and pastor Raymond Koh’s disappearance, and others.
Even with the suggested Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC), there's always that tinge of a challenge for our enforcement brothers.
The West has now implemented body cameras to understand how the authorities do their jobs and it seems not much better, as many authorities have been charged or sued by citizens.
The #BlackLivesMatter movement is the result of these minorities’ complaints about the authorities; misconduct.
Not Convinced: If in the US - the land of the free, home of the brave - there are cases of innocent lives being put to death, what more in Malaysia, which until recently the land of kleptocracy and home of the police state.
You can’t bring a dead person back to life, no matter how innocent he or she is. - Mkini
Source | https://malaysiansmustknowthetruth.blogspot.com/2018/11/yoursay-better-let-1000-guilty-people.html
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