I pray that the Singaporean Government will grant clemency in this matter and that in the future it will look for alternative punishments for all prisoners.
Please show clemency for Nguyen Tuong Van. He will not alter the problem of drug trafficking by your sending him to death. Drug traffickers are people who have much more power than Nguyen. He is just a desperate child and a victim of the world's true criminals. Let him suffer in a gaol for his crime, but do not take his life and his potential to breathe or his loved soul from his family. I beg YOU! Your crime of hanging this child is as hideous as the pedalling of drugs you accuse him of. Should you therefore hang yourselves? In the face of Karma, you are doing just that, because Nguyen is YOU and YOU ARE Nguyen.
It's not too late. You will be hailed as the greatest leader on Earth if you can find the courage to work with your laws to free this boy from death!
I think the punishment should fit the crime.Hanging this young man is completely out of proportion.At the very least commute his death sentence to a life sentence in prison?
what does taking a life acheive the problem will allways persist and your country will allways be seen as draconian...why not kill all guilty prisoners????
This young man, like everyone, has the right to live. He has committed a crime and should be imprisoned but he does not deserve to die. His death will serve no positive purpose. Justice will not be done.
Please do not hang this young man. Yes, he has done wrong, but the punishment by far exceeds the crime. In hanging him, you also impose a lifetime sentence on his mother and those who love him.
The punishment that has been imposed on Van, is far more hideous and far more worrying than the crime the he has committed. PLease do all you can to stop this insane act.
This man was born at a disadvantage. To try to help his family is not a crime. He deserves clemency. He has been upfront and honest. Please don't let another "Innocent" die!
Alot of people could accuse me of jumping on the band wagon, but I guess that all this media attention has increased my awareness of the issue. To execute a man with so many extenuating circumtances and not feel some kind of remorse, and wonder what good the sentence is achieving is some what of a mystery..
Please let him live. Everyone has the privilege to do a big mistake once in a lifetime. Has Van done his deadly mistake? Take a look into his face. This is not the face of a brutal
professional drug dealer. Once again please let Van live. If you`ll set him free he´ll remember these days in prison on every day of his
life.
Drug addiction in a society is statistically proven to be directly proportinate to how content and empowered are it's people. If the drug problem in your country is so vsst that you are compelled to take this kind of action, then your people feel unhappy and disempowered. Maybe you hang too many of them.
If it's a crime (and it is ...murder!) to intentionally take the life of another, then what is it to take a child from his mother. She is innocent and yet will suffer most from this. I have seen what happens to mothers who lose thier children and it is far worse than death. Van,his mother and brother are all victims of heroin...as much as those who die with track marks. The onus lies with those further up the chain and the clear and inherent problems with our global society that sees people reaching for this cruch when faced with despair. If we're going to be civilised and "1st World" then we need to stop punishing the victims. This is not only a punishment on who commits the crime but on everyone that loves them.
Everyone in life makes mistake, some mistake are bigger than others. Carrying drugs is a terrible offence, but this young man does not deserve to loose his life because of this mistake. PLEASE show some compassion and send this boy home to his family and mother
Save the life of Van.... the death penalty is NOT a deterant for drug trafficking! it's just an excuse for a sketchy law enforcemant system to portray a "tough" image. it doesn't catch the REAL money makers... only the vulnerable few at the lower end of the pyramid who are willing to risk death for the sake of a better life...
Being told of the date you are going to be hung is punishment enough already. Having a letter sent to his mother informing her of his death is punishment enough. His action was committed probably just so that he could provide a better life for himself and his family. Please make a comparison to other drug smuggling cases around the world and punish him accordingly.
Van is not a hardened criminal that deserves to be executed. His act, although stupid was motivated through compassionate intentions. It's ironic how the nice boy of the family must go to death for the silly acts of his twin brother. His Mum will have no one left....
If a justice system doesn't consider the individual circumstances of a case, then it has lost its humanity. Mandatory sentencing is like a naive mathematical algorithm for justice - if we want our decisions to be so dehumanised, a simple computer-program could dispense 'justice' this way.
It shatters my heart to the core to think that someone so young is given a punishment so cruel and in- humane.
Actions deserve concequences, however they must be ones were people can repent, rehabilitate, be given a chance to change and make a valid difference in the world and most of all be FORGIVEN.
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. Matthew 6:14 (New Geneva Study Bible 1995)
My prayers are with Van and his family through their great many hours of need.
This sentencing is wrong and un-just.
PLEASE SPARE HIM.
I don't see how this is a logical way to reward and encourage honesty. You are failing to grasp an opportunity to encourage sharing of information from your prisoners and make a greater dent in drug trade with this information. Reward his honesty and help with his life. Show helping you is worthwhile and do not practice unjust punishment, because it makes you no better than the criminals.
Singapore Government should realise that we all make some stupid mistakes at times. God forgives us so many times so that we can learn our lessons and move on. The Singapore government officials should look into their hearts and know that they might also wheel & deal in so many hidden crimes and they are still around. If the same unforgiving rules apply to these Singapore officails, they would not be around today to govern the people of this island. Show mercy to this fellow and God would have mercy to you and your people.
John Howard, would you have settled as you have now if this was your son on death row?
This is so wrong. Economic development is not worth the life of an Australian. Please save this young man from a brutal murder.
The young man has made a mistake..... what right do you have to take his life? Imagine if it were your own kids... I have no doubt you goverment officials are no saints yourselves... think about it.
His sentence is barbaric and does not fit the crime. I will never look at Singapore the same way again to take away such a young and promising life. Please save his life - if the Singapore Government kills him, they will have an innocent lamb's blood on their hands.
This case must be the darkest in history. Singapore government has shown they are heartless and ruthless in the way they handle this case. The facts he has no history of crime committed, collaborated with authority and he had admitted his guilt, remorse should be enough to grant him his life. It is very sad not because he receive the death sentence but knowing that someone lose his life that does not fit the crime committed.
