Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam delivering a ministerial statement in Parliament on May 8, 2024.SINGAPORE: Singapore's Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Wednesday cited local and regional surveys as proof of strong and growing support for using the death penalty on drug traffickers.
Nearly 77 per cent of survey respondents agreed that the death penalty should be used for the most serious crimes, such as murder and drug trafficking – up from almost 74 per cent two years back. A similar proportion - 86 per cent - believed that the death penalty makes people not want to commit serious crimes in Singapore.
Mr Shanmugam said the high levels of support was due to Singaporeans' trust in the government to do the right thing, and do right by Singapore. In May last year, Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act directions were issued against 10 social media posts and two online articles for containing false statements about the death sentence meted out to
In one case, there were seven post-appeal applications, which were all dismissed by the courts for being without merit, he said.