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“Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cured for crime as charity wrong as a cure for poverty”, said Henry Ford. I personally, agree with what he said as I think that the death penalty is a purely unjust and unreasoned punishment, however hideous the crime. However, Singaporeans do not seem to think so. In a poll recently carried out by The Star, Malaysia, it is known that 83% of Singaporeans support the death penalty. In the past decade, 340 people have been put to death, most for drug offences. According to Amnesty International, Singapore has possibly one of the highest execution rates in the world, relative to its population of 3.1 million people. The death penalty is a violation to the right to life and the right not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. There are a number of incontrovertible arguments against the death penalty. The most important is the certainty that genuinely innocent people will be executed and that there will be no possible way of compensating them for this miscarriage of justice. In a “supposed” murder, often the only people who know what actually took place are the accused and the deceased. A crucial point has to made here: No matter how wond