Drug Reform of Death Penalty in Asia and the world

Dear President of Singapore, Indonesia, China and all nations which have the death penalty,

Re: death penalty for drugs

I implore you to reconsider clemency for drug dealers. The young Australian-Vietnamese man executed in 2006 was a great tragedy as he was such a small pawn and a misguided one in this whole misplaced attempt to guide our citizens to good health in what they consume. In 2015 the Bali 9 were executed barbarically in Indonesia despite reforming themselves and one becoming a priest. Executions are a crude and ineffective way to solve the drug problem. Drugs are an illness in society. Those caught up in this illness even as a result of their own greed are a product of the societies failure.

These people who profit on an illness and a weakness in society need to be reformed and UOCA offers a method to bring about an end to addiction for all of society, and not just of illegal drugs but all harmful substances consumed.

Executing has simply diminished Singapore, Indonesia and China's human rights record and damaged there international reputation as modern democracies and communist states.

Offering clemency and going even further and ending capital punishment will only enhance their reputation in the world.

Drug trafficking is a product of the criminalisation of drugs, thus making the sale profits extremely high due to reduced supply. Legalising these drugs would end this trade almost entirely along with the organised crime and associated drug related crime. Government control of the drug trade is the most effective way of dealing with the abuse of drugs and ensuring people use these drugs in the least harmful way combined with education.

To execute someone because the society misunderstood how to deal with these substances and control them properly would be judged by history as a criminal and barbarous act by the society.

Urgent world wide reform of drug laws, education and controls is needed. Singapore could use this case to begin the greatest transformation of societies view of law enforcement, reform and punishment and substance abuse. Education, youth delinquency, moral behaviour and social attitudes would be addressed such that the corruption of the youth who have lost faith in our economic miracle and are now regularly simply ignoring our laws and using these substances regardless. This exemplifies that our laws are out of touch with this generation.

In depth research needs to be done on the effects of these drugs that are supposedly so harmful to determine what exactly there effects are. They are so prevalent that unless this research is carried out openly then the unregulated use of these drugs and the harmful consequences as a result will be the fault not of the users or our children who are exploited but ultimately be our own fault for not implementing such controls. From what I understand most harm from drugs results from contamination of the product or overdose. These are largely a result of an inferior product being sold or a lack of education of the user on the method of using the substance. Proper education of the population needs to be given on the effects of drug use. Beneficial properties of these drugs for medical purposes needs to be further investigated.