Andrew Bartlett
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Death Penalty
| Good to see the major parties voting together in the House of Representatives yesterday calling on the Singapore government not to execute Australian man Van Nguyen. I wrote a piece - Death to the Death Penalty - earlier this year. Read that if you want to know my views, but in short, opposing the death penalty for Australians whilst being equivocal about it being carried out on others weakens the strength of any call on a foreign government to exercise clemency. I also raised this in the Senate a couple of weeks ago. As Neil Mitchell wrote in this article, "opposing capital punishment is not optional. You either support it or not." |
posted by Andrew Bartlett @ Tuesday, November 01, 2005
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