Gallows-wallah Uncle
People still get hanged these days? Man, I really am out of the loop here.
The hangman who will execute Australian drug trafficker Van Tuong Nguyen in Singapore has been revealed as a semi-retired 73-year-old grandfather.
In a matter of weeks, Darshan Singh will place a rope around the 25-year-old’s neck and say the words he has spoken to more than 850 condemned prisoners during his 46 years as Singapore’s chief executioner.
Read more: Nguyen executioner revealed
November 10th, 2005 at 1:00 pm
what do you think you have to have on your resume to get this job?
this shouldn’t come as such a huge surprise, remember that guy that got caned because he vandalized cars…
November 11th, 2005 at 3:40 pm
hung to death, electrocuted, lethal injection.
How are any of them any different ? Less painful ? Less visible ?
We’re still killing a man. Because.. we feel fit to judge him.
As long as the death penalty is allowed and practiced, we really shouldn’t be amazed about the way things are done, it’s all economics, I guess.
Sad, sad, sad.
November 17th, 2005 at 11:50 pm
If you knowingly smuggle drugs through countries that have the death penalty and you are caught then you have no one but your self to blame. I do not support capital punishment but I do respect the laws of other countries.
November 28th, 2005 at 9:36 am
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