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The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2012 Tipping the Scales for Abolition

2012

There are many routes towards abolition of the death penalty. The courtroom is just one of them, as is the reduction of the number of offences for which the death penalty may be applied. However, considering how clearly international human rights bodies have set out the international norms against these laws, governments should now be forced to defend these international standards against the use of the death penalty.

The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2015

2015

Yet, alongside these promising developments, the period 2015 to 2017 has also seen the birth of the brutal 'war on drugs' in the Philippines, which has resulted in an estimated 12,000 extrajudicial executions. 4 Considering these very worrying developments, this report also includes a section on the rise of extrajudicial executions for drugs, which looks at the impact it is having both in the region and more broadly, as well as its implications for the judicial application of the death penalty for drug offences.

Enforcement of Capital Punishment: Legal Issues in Eliminating Drug Trafficking

Social and Management Research Journal, 2016

Drug trafficking in Malaysia is punishable with a mandatory capital punishment. To convict a person for drug trafficking is a laborious task for the prosecution. This paper presents the findings of the research on drug trafficking cases which revealed that the courts have been vigorous in meting out capital punishment. However, there are challenges faced by the prosecution in succeeding in cases. This study found various hindrances that frustrate the efforts in combating drug trafficking activities. In some cases, due to evidential procedures and requirements, the person accused for drug trafficking had to be acquitted even though the amount of drugs involved in the case appeared to suggest that there was some drug-related activities. Therefore, while capital punishment is theoretically aimed at deterring drug trafficking, much has to be done to achieve the intended objective. Keywords: drug trafficking, capital punishment, evidential procedures, acquittal, conviction

‘Complicity or Abolition? The Death Penalty and International Support for Drug Enforcement’

Harm Reduction International, 2010

This report exposes links between the death penalty and international support for drug enforcement provided by abolitionist governments, such as Australia and Member States of the European Union. It identifies people captured with international financial and technical assistance and subsequently sentenced to death and/or executed. It argues for human rights assessments to be conducted by donor states and implementing agencies in order to identify the human rights risks associated with supporting drug control in certain environments.

Human Trafficking Drug Trafficking, And The Death Penalty

2016

Both Australia and Indonesia have made commitments to combatting human trafficking. Through the experience of Mary Jane Veloso it can be seen that it is most often the vulnerable ‘mule’ that is apprehended by law enforcement and not the powerful leaders of crime syndicates. It is unacceptable that those vulnerable individuals may face execution for acts committed under threat of force, coercion, fraud, deception or abuse of power. For this reason it is vital that a system of victim identification is developed, including better training for law enforcement, legal representatives and members of the judiciary. This paper builds on submissions by authors for Australian Parliamentary Inquiry into Human Trafficking, and focusses on issues arising in the complex cross section of human trafficking, drug trafficking, and the death penalty with particular attention on identifying victims and effective reporting mechanisms in both Australia and Indonesia. It concludes that, in the context of ...

Why Should The Death Penalty Not Be Abolish For Narcotics Crimes? A Case Study In Indonesia

JIIP - Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Pendidikan

Narcotic crimes are global phenomena that transcend jurisdictional borders. In Indonesia, narcotics crimes attract a different form of punishment, including the death penalty, depending on the nature and gravity of the crimes. This study examines Indonesian law's death penalty sentence for narcotics crimes. It explores the governing principles and current law position relating to this controversial law. This research adopts doctrinal research. The sources of legal materials consist of three, namely, primary, secondary, and tertiary sources of law. The results of this study reveal that the death penalty for the offenders of narcotics crimes under Indonesian law is lawful and justifiable, considering its gravity, nature and impacts. The crimes have caused substantial social, economic and resource loss to the nation and country.

Death Sentences for Criminal Acts of Narcotics in a Juridical Review

2021

Narcotics crime is an extraordinary crime, also known as extraordinary crime, which can endanger or even kill the lives of others. Therefore, law enforcement must also be done in an extraordinary way so as to provide a deterrent effect to the perpetrators of narcotics crimes. The purpose of this study is to discuss the juridical review of the implementation of the death penalty for narcotics criminals, human rights views on the death penalty for narcotics criminals, as well as the factors that influence judges in deciding the death penalty for narcotics criminals. The research method used is normative legal research by collecting library data. The results of this study are the determination of the death penalty for narcotics criminals who are without rights or against the law to possess, store, control, or provide, produce, import, export, or distribute narcotics and exceed 1 (one) kilogram or exceed 5 kilograms. (five) tree trunks or in the form of non-plants weighing 5 (five) gram...