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Capital punishment is legal in Singapore. The city-state had the second highest per-capita execution rate in the world between 1994 and 1999, estimated by the United Nations to be 13.83 executions annually per hundred thousand of population during that period.〔(para 68 UNODC.org (page 18) )〕 The highest was Turkmenistan (now an abolitionist country) with 14.92. Each execution in Singapore is carried out by hanging in Changi Prison at dawn on Friday. In a survey done two years ago, reported in the Straits Times, 95% of Singaporeans feel that the death penalty should stay. Singapore has had capital punishment since it was a British colony and became independent before the United Kingdom abolished capital punishment. The Singaporean procedure of hanging condemned individuals is heavily influenced by the methods formerly used in Great Britain. In 2012, however, the State amended its law to exempt some cases from the mandatory sentence while boosting enforcement. Although the penalty will stay, discretionary measures are now given to the judge. ==Statistics== The following table of executions was compiled by Amnesty International from several sources, including statistics supplied by the Ministry of Home Affairs in January 2001 and government figures reported to ''Agence France-Presse'' in September 2003. Numbers in brackets are the number of foreign citizens executed, according to information disclosed by the Ministry of Home Affairs. ||0||50 |- |1997||||11 ||5||15 |- |1998||4 ||24 ||0||28 |- |1999||8 ||35 ||0||43 |- |2000||4 ||17 ||0||21 |- |2000||?||23||?||? |- |2001||?||22||?||? |- |2002||?||?||?||? |- |2003||?||?||?||10 |- |2004||?||?||?||8〔 |- |2005||?||?||?||8〔 |- |2006||?||?||?||8〔 |- |2007||1 ||2 ||0 ||3〔(Written Answer to Parliamentary Question on Judicial Executions From 2004 to 2010, 21 October 2011, MHA )〕 |- |2008||4 ||2 ||0 ||6〔(Prisons Annual Report 2011 Part 4 )〕 |- |2009||1 ||3 ||1 ||5〔 |- |2010||0 ||0 ||0 ||0〔 |- |2011||2? ||2 ||0? ||4 |- |2012||0 ||0 ||0 ||0〔(Massive leap backwards as Singapore resumes executions )〕 |- |2013||0 ||0 ||0 ||0〔 |- |2014||0 ||2 ||0 ||2〔 |} Detailed statistics are not released by the government of Singapore from 2000 to 2006. Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong told the BBC in September 2003 that he believed there were "in the region of about 70 to 80" hangings in 2003. Two days later he retracted his statement, saying the number was in fact ten. The chief executioner, Darshan Singh, said that he has executed more than 850 people during his service from 1959 using the phrase: "I am going to send you to a better place than this. God bless you." This included 18 people on one day, using three ropes at a time. Singh also said that he has hanged 7 people within 90 minutes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Capital punishment in Singapore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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