Posted on 11/09/2021 2:41:15 AM PST by nickcarraway
The execution of a Malaysian drug trafficker was stayed on Tuesday (Nov 9) by the Court of Appeal, after he tested positive for COVID-19.
Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, who has been on death row for 11 years, was ushered in briefly into the dock for a last-bid attempt against his death sentence.
However, he was later taken away, and a judge informed the court that Nagaenthran had tested positive for COVID-19.
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Covid 19 to the rescue!
> 33-year-old Nagaenthran’s
Wait it out. Covid will kill him in 45 years anyway.
So a drug trafficker needs to be in perfect health to be executed?
When they execute him, will they count it as a Covid death?
The attitude and superstitions about this virus in SE Asia are really strong and bizarre.
For a long time over here in Thailand, it was difficult to find a temple to cremate the remains of somebody who was thought to have died from Covid. The monks were mostly convinced that they could catch it from proximity to the dead body and the villagers would be worried about getting covid from the smoke from the temple crematorium.
Wouldn’t be surprised that some similar superstition would scare the Malaysians (even though Malaysia is mostly Muslim rather than Buddhist like Thailand) and that being the reason for the reprieve.
Don’t chew gum in Singapore. Don’t even think about spitting it out.
That’s why Singapore is so clean.
Wha?!
Idiocy, at its finest.
Hey, we’re civilized! We need to get him good and healthy before we kill him.
..........so Richard Branson thought his opinion on a drug pusher in Singapore being executed should be determinative???
Jeez!
That’s how you fight a war on drugs.
But you're correct,Singapore is a very clean city,far cleaner than Hong Kong.
OMG!
This sounds just like the George Carlin routine on germs:
“In prisons, before they give you a lethal injection, they swab your arm with alcohol!
It’s true! Yeah! Well, they don’t want you to get an infection!
And you could see their point; wouldn’t want some guy to go to hell and be sick! It would take a lot of the sportsmanship out of the whole execution.”
- George Carlin, You are all Diseased
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