Changi Prison hangman wants to quit
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Singapore hangman wants out
The Daily Telegraph
October 27, 2005
THE man due to execute convicted Australian drug trafficker Van Tuong Nguyen in Singapore is a 73-year-old grandfather who can't retire because no-one will take his job.
The Singaporean government looks set to take the 25-year-old Melbourne man to the gallows, after rejecting his appeal for clemency last Friday.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has made a last ditch attempt to save Nguyen's life, but says he has little hope the Australian will be spared.
Singapore's chief executioner Darshan Singh, who has hanged more than 850 prisoners in his 46 years in the role, is due to place the rope around Nguyen's neck, The Australian newspaper reported today.
He will say: "I am going to send you to a better place than this. God bless you."
The newspaper says Singh wants to leave his job but authorities cannot find a replacement.
Singh is not permitted by law to speak publicly about his job.
But a colleague told the newspaper: "He tried to train two would-be hangmen to replace him, a Malaysian and a Chinese, both in the prison service.
"But when it came to pulling the lever for the real thing, they both froze and could not do it.
"The Chinese guy, a prison officer, became so distraught he walked out immediately and resigned from the prison service altogether."
Nguyen was caught with 396g of heroin strapped to his body and in his hand luggage at Singapore's Changi airport in 2002.
He is expected to be hanged in the next four to six weeks. -
then the whipper leh?
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In that case, they might as well scrap the idea of execution, since nobody wants to play the executioner.
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He does not kill.Despite all the legalese about being the State that sentences, any man worth his soul will walk away from the lever.Originally posted by FireIce:then the whipper leh?
I pity Mr Darshan Singh.He does his job so that others will not have to bear that burden on their soul. -
Walk away.Save your soul.Originally posted by iveco:In that case, they might as well scrap the idea of execution, since nobody wants to play the executioner. -
Whipping is fine with me, since it does not involve getting blood on one's hands.Originally posted by FireIce:then the whipper leh? -
dun worry theres always LKY
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i wan be. ho tan leh. no one wans thats means salary will increase
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get CJ to go n pull leh. he happy sentence this and that person to death but he dun need to do the dirty work. maybe let him go pull once next time he sentence ppl to death he might think in depth.
also get all those PAP people to go pull. I think they will like it. -
crematorium automated liao...y cant this be automated?
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r u crazy? u want them to build an automated killing machine?Originally posted by NT2:crematorium automated liao...y cant this be automated? -
Well, you still need someone to lead the condemned person to the noose.Originally posted by NT2:crematorium automated liao...y cant this be automated? -
conveyor belt lor....Originally posted by iveco:Well, you still need someone to lead the condemned person to the noose. -
hmm maybe not but then maybe if they put a button to hang the person in a nice cosy office which is totally cut off from the execution site then the pple who press won't have so much problem?Originally posted by HENG@:r u crazy? u want them to build an automated killing machine? -
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ya lor...label the button as 'HOT WATER' then whoever press kena lor. hahahhaaOriginally posted by hisoka:hmm maybe not but then maybe if they put a button to hang the person in a nice cosy office which is totally cut off from the execution site then the pple who press won't have so much problem?
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well it is a tough job,looking at people slowing dying of suffocation and maybe with a last struggle would sure to take its toll over the years.
Hmm maybe if they change the execution method to one that let the condemned person die more peacefully? -
no lah the point is you dun see the person die mah so its not as bad as long as you dun use over active imaginationOriginally posted by NT2:ya lor...label the button as 'HOT WATER' then whoever press kena lor. hahahhaa -
The Death Sentence is the lightest punishement the state can give a convict.
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bring back the guillotine lah... swift, easy, painless and automated without need for electricity.
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With our government?Haha.Originally posted by Aveme:well it is a tough job,looking at people slowing dying of suffocation and maybe with a last struggle would sure to take its toll over the years.
Hmm maybe if they change the execution method to one that let the condemned person die more peacefully? -
Then what is the heaviest?Originally posted by shade343:The Death Sentence is the lightest punishement the state can give a convict. -
they got put advert for that post meh? or they asking for scholar only?
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messy lah must employ cleaners hanging not so messy and ordinary cleaners can do the cleaningOriginally posted by kc_leung:bring back the guillotine lah... swift, easy, painless and automated without need for electricity. -
hmm....