Amnesty International Malaysia

A week or so ago, my school, Nexus International School, was fortunate enough to get two representative from Amnesty International Malaysia to talk about 'abolishing death penalty.' Now, I know everyone would be thinking that death penalty is such a horrible thing but, sometimes, it could be the right thing to do. Just, sometimes. This does not mean all solutions should be done by death penalty, ofcourse not, but if there were great amount of evidence and everything to show that this person has to go through death penalty, then well, it's up to the law.

In some countries, death penalty plays a huge roll. For example, Malaysia has a huge roll in death penalty, nearly about everything got to do with it. - Including drugs, which is kind of too much, but, yes, it is in the law.

So, those people were talking about how death penalty was not a great idea and the world has chosen to stop the idea of death penalty;

As from the numbers that has been stated, the world has clearly is still trying to abolished death penalty everywhere. But some countries, death penalty is the only thing that would create the country to be in peace.

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During my Global Perspective class after those wonderful ladies finished their speech and we went back to our classrooms, my teacher

asked the question, "so who are against and for death penalty?" & then, I was struck. I didn't know what to say, what to answer, what to do. There's no rights or wrongs, each has consequences, each has benefits, it was hard to choose. So I stayed neutral.

Now, I have decided to stay neutral because, you have to see the two different sides. Some people sometimes stick to their own side because of how they think it should be like, but actually, you need to think both ways.

For: Death Penalty.

Now, think about all the other countries that has used death penalties for years and for them, seems like the source for all solution. Malaysia, is one example that strongly uses death penalties. Some people believe that, if Malaysia abolish such thing, the economy, the crime rate and anything related to that would increase. Any type of consequences can happen.

Against: Death Penalty.

If there weren't any death penalty, probably the world could be a better place. But there's something that struck me the most; the rope.

Apparently, in Malaysia, the rope has to be costume made just for that prisoner itself that has to be executed. Now, this rope has to be imported from England, so the price is not even close to cheap; actually, its 5000 pounds - we could be saving other countries overseas rather than spending on one time, one use for the executioner.

Sometimes, those people that has been accused to have committed a crime are innocent. There was a case that a Malaysian boy around the age of 18 was been told to bring a bag of some unknown substance into the land of the Melion

; Singapore. Once he reached the island, the enforcement immediately took him into prison. Reason? He was carrying about 38 grams of class A drugs. He has been sentenced to death but yet, he is still trying to prove his innocence.

From what the people has just said, there was this term and condition quote that they have stated;

"Recognize that every child has the inheret the right to life"

"Right to life, liberty & security of person"

In my opinion, nothing is wrong or right, but, if the law could make some laws to be abolished without the need for death penalty, then, the world would be a better place.