Murdering innocent citizens

In Singapore, because of a law, one can be hanged even if one were innocent. The scary thought is: how many innocent people have we hanged already.

I'll leave the debate about the death penalty for another time. To me, the death penalty does nothing - it does not deter others from committing these crimes (or else logically-speaking, there would be no such crimes by now), and it deprives even the most hardened and despicable of criminals of repenting, changing for the better, and possibly do good later on. Come think of it, we let so many imperfect citizens roam around freely, while we hang those who would actually emerge even better citizens and who would benefit society much more. So the death penalty takes away that precious opportunity that everyone deserves - repentance and forgiveness. When it comes to a certain point, we're pitting vengeance with forgiveness. It should be obvious which one is morally superior - and that in freeing that criminal we may eventually save ourselves from someone else's revenge.

Meanwhile, here's a very short clip about why the death penalty especially as carried out in Singapore is unnecessary, and wrong. Wrong because lives are taken away. Sometimes innocent lives. And sometimes it is our loved ones' lives: