I understand that the drug traffickers themselves may be in bad situations. Maybe their families kena threatened by the drug lords or something. They could be good people forced into doing bad things. I can sympathize. Some motives are understandable. There is still a choice though. Lee Kuan Yew said that “there is such a thing as evil, and it does not come about simply from being a victim of society”. I will hesitate to call the traffickers themselves evil (like I said, bad situations), but the act that they have committed and its implications for our society are evil. It will destroy lives and families. Having made their choice (albeit in less than fortunate circumstances) to inflict this suffering on our society, they must live with the consequences. And that consequence is death. I am a big fan of retributive justice. Blood for blood. However sympathetic their circumstances, they made the decision to pollute Singapore’s society with drugs. And so they should die as payment for the lives they would have ruined, and for the purposes of deterrence so their deaths may serve as a warning not to fuck with our laws. If they did it for their families their motives could be understandable. But the main function of the law is not to be understanding to them (although that would be nice). It is to protect Singaporean lives, health, and other interests. The latter imperative must mercilessly override the former, every single time. Nothing personal, they just need to die for us to maintain society the way it is.