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G Braasch
18/1/1994
I would like to bring up a matter that has been widely
commented on already, since it was also accepted in the draft constitution.
It
concerns the matter of penalties for crimes committed, especially murder, rape,
violent assault, these serious crimes becoming
so popular nowadays.
I
feel that a person doing something to somebody else must realize that the
punishment is severe, definitely not less than what you
are doing to your
victim. This implicates that the death penalty must be kept for
murder.
I propose further that a convict should not have normal rights as
a law-abiding person, the right to vote for instance. Part of the
penalty
should be the loss of normal rights, temporary removal from society alone is not
enough.
Since it seems that imprisonment today is not a deterrent to
crime, I would suggest hard labour and canning be reintroduced. If this
approach can work in Singapore, it will most probably also have better results
in this country.
The main point I want to make is that white collar
crimes, fraud etc. is less severely punishable than those mentioned at the
beginning.
Today one finds that these crimes are punished harder in
comparison.
G BRAASCH
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