ABOLISH THE DEATH
PENALTY
The murder of Canny Ong was indisputably
shocking and barbaric. However, the death penalty meted to the perpetrator is
just as barbaric and amoral. The death penalty is a glaring instance of State
amorality and cold-bloodedness at its worst. Since 1976, every year at least 3
countries have abolished the death penalty and today over half of the countries
of the world have abolished the death penalty. This worldwide trend towards
abolition is reflected by the UN Human Rights Commission�s Resolution calling
for the suspension of all executions towards final
abolition. The State-sponsored extinguishing of
human lives is not a solution to the problem of crime. Studies have consistently
shown that there is no evidence that the death penalty effectively deters crime.
As this punishment is irreversible, we run the horrendous risk of executing
innocent persons. For example since 1973, more than 100 condemned persons have
been released in the US due to credible fresh
evidence. The infliction of the death penalty upon
its citizens by the State, reduces it to the level of a savage. It reiterates
the very crime which it seeks to mark as reprehensible and the solution it
arrives at is thus inconsequent to the problem it
addresses. The statistics in Malaysia are shocking
as 358 people have been hanged over the past 24 years.
We call for an immediate cessation of
this brutal punishment. We call for a suspension of all
executions pending abolition of the death penalty. We call for this in the name of
Humanity. N.
Surendran Charles
Hector Salbiah
Ahmad for Malaysians Against Death Penalty and
Torture (MADPET) 24th February
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