Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ...[et al.]

Many countries in Asia, including Malaysia, impose the death penalty for nonviolent crimes, including drug related crimes. Capital punishment is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent. It has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other punishments. Every death sentence is a...

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Main Authors:	Sapian, Aizuddin, Abdul Manaf, Azman, Zainal Abidin, Siti Aisyah, Mustafa, Nurmifatul Shuhadah
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2009
Subjects:	Drug habits Drug abuse Offenses against public morals
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32898/1/32898.pdf
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.328982020-10-30T15:26:06Z Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ...[et al.] 2009 Sapian, Aizuddin Abdul Manaf, Azman Zainal Abidin, Siti Aisyah Mustafa, Nurmifatul Shuhadah Drug habits. Drug abuse Offenses against public morals Many countries in Asia, including Malaysia, impose the death penalty for nonviolent crimes, including drug related crimes. Capital punishment is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent. It has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other punishments. Every death sentence is an affront to human dignity, every execution a symptom of, not a solution to, a culture of violence. However, the government holds a different view. It reserves the death penalty for those who carry, say, above fifteen grammes of heroin because of the harm that they would have had on the populace, if the drug had been disseminated. This reservation strengthens the government's stand on the import of dangerous quantities of drugs. It is a message to the drug offenders, who would always attempt to maximise their profits by carrying more drugs on each trip, not to entertain such ideas. It is prevention within deterrence, minimising the damage. It is a sort of damage control. 2009 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32898/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32898/1/32898.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA Faculty of Law Faruqi, Shad Salem (Prof. Emeritus)
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advisor	Faruqi, Shad Salem (Prof. Emeritus)
topic	Drug habits Drug abuse Offenses against public morals
spellingShingle	Drug habits Drug abuse Offenses against public morals Sapian, Aizuddin Abdul Manaf, Azman Zainal Abidin, Siti Aisyah Mustafa, Nurmifatul Shuhadah Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ...[et al.]
description	Many countries in Asia, including Malaysia, impose the death penalty for nonviolent crimes, including drug related crimes. Capital punishment is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent. It has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other punishments. Every death sentence is an affront to human dignity, every execution a symptom of, not a solution to, a culture of violence. However, the government holds a different view. It reserves the death penalty for those who carry, say, above fifteen grammes of heroin because of the harm that they would have had on the populace, if the drug had been disseminated. This reservation strengthens the government's stand on the import of dangerous quantities of drugs. It is a message to the drug offenders, who would always attempt to maximise their profits by carrying more drugs on each trip, not to entertain such ideas. It is prevention within deterrence, minimising the damage. It is a sort of damage control.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Bachelor degree
author	Sapian, Aizuddin Abdul Manaf, Azman Zainal Abidin, Siti Aisyah Mustafa, Nurmifatul Shuhadah
author_facet	Sapian, Aizuddin Abdul Manaf, Azman Zainal Abidin, Siti Aisyah Mustafa, Nurmifatul Shuhadah
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title	Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ...[et al.]
title_short	Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ...[et al.]
title_full	Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ...[et al.]
title_fullStr	Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ...[et al.]
title_full_unstemmed	Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ...[et al.]
title_sort	capital punishment for drug offenders in malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / aizuddin sapian ...[et al.]
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi MARA
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Capital punishment for drug offenders in Malaysia: balancing between human rights and utilitarian rationales / Aizuddin Sapian ...[et al.]

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