Singapore says hangman not sacked
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Singapore says hangman not sacked
Monday Nov 28 21:22 AEDT
Singapore's prison authorities have denied the city-state's chief executioner Darshan Singh has been sacked.
Singh, 74, has hanged more than 800 prisoners in a career spanning 45 years, and he had been expected to be the executioner of Australian drug trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van on Friday.
"Darshan Singh has not been sacked and continues to be a contract officer engaged by the prisons department," a spokesman for the prisons department said on Monday.
"There is no change to his status," added the spokesman, but he would not confirm whether Singh would be the executioner in Nguyen's case.
Nguyen, 25, faces the gallows at dawn local time after all appeals for clemency have been rejected by the government.
Reports of Singh's dismissal appeared on Sunday in an Australian article that speculated a replacement would be flown in from Malaysia.
Singh appeared to substantiate the story later on Sunday when he was quoted as saying: "They called me a few days ago and said I don't have to hang Nguyen and that I don't have to work any more".
The reported reason for the sacking was Singh's comments in an interview that appeared in an Australian press report earlier this month.
An Australian sheetmetal worker on Monday reportedly offered his services to Singapore to replace Singh as hangman.
Keith Sauerwald, 65, from Darwin in the Northern Territory, told Agence France-Presse he had written to the Singapore High Commission in Canberra to request the job.
"Apparently not too many people want the job and somebody has to do the job, and to do the job I think you have to have a rather large dislike for drug addicts," Sauerwald was quoted as saying.
"I have a great dislike for druggos (drug addicts)," he reportedly said.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=74757
Ah. wth is going on..
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Yahoo website stated he is sack. So now who rite who wrong? This friday 6am we'll know the answer. Will this whole process of the hanging be shown live on Australian tv channels?
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now what the hell is going on... -
there'll be hell to pay if it is shown live.
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Prisons Service trying to do damage control?If so, it's a farce now.First it was PM Lee and PM Howard's dispute over not telling the date, now this executioner problem.
Gabra season ah?
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Got live telecast of the hanging? CNN have?
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are u mad...Originally posted by Manager433:Got live telecast of the hanging? CNN have? -
Yea, that's him, that's him. Opposition party ain't too please with him for his offer. Makes them look stupid.
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dont tell me they 'unsack' him.
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According to another forum, they say that the local media there created false hope.Originally posted by dragg:dont tell me they 'unsack' him. -
what has the sacking got to do with hope?
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See what happens when the media is not reported correctly? You get alot of long pointless threads.
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Doesn't matter who hangs him, as long as the criminal gets hanged.
Deng said it doesn't matter whether its a black or white cat........ -
So who is correct?
Is he being sacked or not? -
Not sacked lah. Hangman retired.Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:So who is correct?
Is he being sacked or not?
Ministry of Manpower :
+1 retiree
- 1 unemployed
+1 job created
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This is what you get from the free press from Australia.
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wah. sensationalism. the press really got all of us sensationalised!
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And our press never even mentions a single thing and I suppose you are dancing in joy and lavishing praise over such sweet succulent reporting.Originally posted by Salman:This is what you get from the free press from Australia. -
I like a free press, but not the errant reporting type you love.
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Ah.Did I say I love?Please do not put words in my mouth.Originally posted by Salman:I like a free press, but not the errant reporting type you love.
Gracias. -
If you are not in the kitchen, you can only guess at what is cooking.
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http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,17401099-5001022,00.html
Three days out from the planned execution of the Melbourne man, who is convicted of drug smuggling, chief executioner Darshan Singh told Channel Nine that there was a chance the Singapore government might reduce his sentence to life imprisonment at the last moment.
"They may say at the 11th hour, they may give him a life sentence. It's still possible," Mr Singh said.
The 74-year-old executioner, who has hanged more than 800 prisoners over 45 years, said if Nguyen is hanged on Friday, he wouldn't be subjected to prolonged suffering.
"With me they don't struggle, I know the real way," Mr Singh said.
He said Nguyen and other he has executed could be reborn as better people.
"I believe in rebirth and they will be better men next time." -
Yep Singh, you are a good man, you have done us proud.
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The most compelling justification for the death penalty to be put forth yet...Originally posted by pat33:http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,17401099-5001022,00.html
He said Nguyen and other he has executed could be reborn as better people.
"I believe in rebirth and they will be better men next time." -
you know him personally?Originally posted by Salman:Yep Singh, you are a good man, you have done us proud.
what makes you think he is a good man?
how has he done you proud?