Originally posted by Panzzer
In big red letters, right? (I haven't been there, but my brother has been there twice - on business trips, not smuggling drugs 
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I've flown into Singapore twice - once from Britain and once from Indonesia. The warning "Death for Drug Traffickers" is indeed on the landing card in large capitals - can't remember the colour! Not only that, but when the flight attendants are about to hand them out, the PA announcement included the caveat
"We draw your attention to the warning given on the front of the card". That announcement is, presumably, to give any would-be traffickers one last chance to flush it down the bog. On the day I arrived from Britain, a 27yo trafficker was hanged in that very same jail for the same offence.
Singapore is in the heroin distribution business.
Wouldn't have thought so - are you sure you've got the right country? Have you ever been there? At less than 250 square miles I would have thought it was too small for poppy growing. However, their trading partners include Golden Triangle opiate producing countries like Burma, known to launder money through Singapore banks.
Back to the original point - there's no point in having a law if it's not enforced. If the subject of this thread had got away with it, that would be the signal to thousands of others that they might get away with it too. They have a similarly tough law on gun crime - have a gun, automatic long jail sentence. Use one in a crime, even longer jail sentence - not sure of the exact lengths, but you wouldn't want to know. But (and this is the bit I do remember) if the gun is actually fired, then even if no-one was hurt, it's an automatic death sentence.
