May be because for chritian faith Ms Aquino was against and hers two successors had the same view ?

Erik Young - UN Human Rights Ambassador

The Prime Minister of Singapore and his fellow officers aided and abetted the Shinawatra TRT regime concerning the slaughter of 3000 innocent Thai people.
Under Singapore Criminal Law the Ministers involved and possibly some senior officers of Temasek Holdings PTE Ltd face the possibility of being sentenced to execution by hanging. Singapore is the 2006 world record holder for executions per capita over three times greater than Saudi Arabia's capita ratio of executions. I have suggested to The Prime Minister of Singapore and his Ministers that they abolish their barbarian behaviour and save their own necks .

Hello Erikyoung

I don't undestand who and when "the shinawatra TRT slaughtered 3000 innocent Thai people". Are you making allusion to the illegal camaign against drug and sex mafias ?

A good news : Xinhua published the saids of a hight ranking teacher of the Chinese People's university of public security pleading for the end of death penalty in China.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-07/12/content_6366978.htm

The Singapore Government and Temasek Holdings PTE Ltd have been actively acquisitioning businesses in Thailand regardless of human rights abuse issues including torture and murder.
Temasek the business division of The Singapore Government were quite prepared to trade with the Shinawatra family regardless of corruption issues. It seems The Singapore Government business arm Temasek Holdings PTE Ltd did little at all to reduce corruption in Thailand or protect the lives of the Thais citizens placing profit before human rights and corruption issues. The Singapore Government aided and abetted Shinawatra while thousands were being slaughtered for being 'suspected' drugs dealers and denied their right to trial and defence...... http://www.article2.org/pdf/v02n03.pdf
Since 1997 The Singapore Government-Temasek Holdings PTE Ltd have failed to influence any reduction in corruption in Thailand and engaged in multiple dealings with known corrupt and criminal business people and politicians for financial gain.<br><br>Post edited by: erikyoung, at: 2007/07/14 17:13

Jacques wrote:

QUOTE:
May be because for chritian faith Ms Aquino was against and hers two successors had the same view ?

maybe, but America is also a christian nation and yet they
have capital punishment,i know you,erikyoung including myself
does not approve of death penalty but-

the question is:
is capital punishment effective in the philippines?
it was abolished, so the answer is - it is ineffective- and why?

as previously stated America is also a christian nation but
death penalty exist- should there be any difference?

How about Singapore-
Singapore is supposed to be influenced
predominantly by Muslim Malaysia since it was
formerly a part of Malaysia-
( am i right? please correct me)

and in Muslim countries death execution exist
they also have stoning to death-

granted that each county have their own definition
as to why it abolished or retained executions
the Philippines has a reason why it was abolished.

then why? if death penalty is ineffective in this country
then why? do we have life sentence without parole in the philippines?

I haven't heard of famous, rich elites or top government officials even their sons who were involved in
high calibere crimes to be convicted or executed.

Unlike china-they do it.

so how does death penalty fare in the philippines
and why it was abolished. will it improve
our crime rate?

Is China to reduce death penalty use ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6994673.stm

In my opinion some people forfeit the right to live.

While it's not particularly popular to say something like this in the left-wing leaning era of do-gooders and social democrats, I believe this to be the case.

In particular people who carry-out heinous acts – such as sexually assaulting and murdering children; the Hutus who without any compunction hacked children and the elderly to death with clubs embedded with nails; Pol Pot; people who abuse their positions of authority and power for corrupt purposes and suck the life-blood out of a community or country for their own greedy, selfish purposes while subjecting their fellow citizens to hardship and poverty.

All lose the right to live.

Viet Nam imposed the death penalty and lowered the limit with which it could be applied for corruption cases in the late 1990's. After a few people were shot, corruption in the country dropped dramatically.

The death penalty is the ultimate deterrent. If people know they face the prospect of it then they choose to gamble with their own life or not.

Naturally it should not be applied to people who are of unsound mind.<br><br>Post edited by: photo_journ, at: 2007/09/26 15:29