Singapore: A Remarkable Free-Market Success Story

Townhall.com ^ | November 28, 2014 | Daniel J. Mitchell

[zeestephen]

Yes - I read Wiki, too.

I linked to the citation.

The number should be 14 per 1,000,000, not 14 per 100,000.

So, the actual rate is 70 per year, not 700.

Plus, they have a footnote at the link.

They estimated Singapore's population at 3.5 million.

In fact, the population in the late 1990’s was about 5 million, so that brings the number of executions down even more.

Just bad luck on your link.

I find Wiki to be exceptionally reliable on published data, almost 100% of the time.

[ansel12]

The current population is almost 5.5 million and in 1990 3.047 million according to their government.
http://www.singstat.gov.sg/publications/publications_and_papers/population_and_population_structure/population2014.pdf

[PGR88]

I founded and ran a company in SIN during the 2000s. I could tell you some scary stories but I certainly will not post them here.

Never lived in Singapore, but visited many times. The space, order and clean air was a welcome break from China where I lived. I knew a few foreigners who owned and ran businesses in Singapore - they never spoke badly about it.

[PGR88]

American style pluralism is exceedingly rare in our world. It works for us but not necessarily for other cultures.

An extremely important point few Americans seem to grasp - Especially those thinking we can make the Mid East into democracies....