Equal Punishment? Not for Singapore
In Singapore, caning is a common form of capital punishment for every kind of felon. But one kind of felon who seems to be immune to this horrific punishment, is women. In Singapore, women, although subject to institutional caning on the hands, are not able to be sentenced to Judicial Caning, Prison Caning, Military Caning, and School Caning. Since Singapore has been founded it has been evident that women are given to easier convictions and less harsh punishment. Caning is just another way that Singapore has chosen to become a country of inequality and sexism.
There are many different opinions around the world about the controversy of gender discrimination, and even more about women not being punished the …show more content…
If women wish to gain the same rights as men, then they must envelope all of the rights and punishments. Which means that men and women alike should all be subject to caning. Does Singapore mean to say that if a woman is committed of murder, she shall not be caned? But If a boy is convicted of spray painting cars he will be caned, jailed, and fined? For example, Michael Fay, a student at Singapore American School in 1994, was sentenced to six strokes of the cane simply for vandalizing a car. Although the punishment was later reduced to 4 strokes of the cane, a boy, 19 years of age, was sentenced to a harsh punishment, and a woman convicted of the same crime of vandalism shall only be jailed and fined. A woman notable for vandalizing all around the country, only serves a short amount of time in jail and a small fee rather than strokes that leave a man with scars and swelts for life. Some people who undergo caning, cannot even continue the rest of their strikes, so instead they send them to jail until their wounds heal, and then finish off their beating another day. What is it that makes Singapore think that men deserve to be punished more than …show more content…
Out of the entire convicted penal population, only 872, roughly 8.7%, is that of convicted women. The other 9,170 inmates, consists of men ranging from below 21 years of age to above 60 years of age. One reason Singapore may have harsher punishment for men, is simply because there are ten times more men than women that are committing crimes in Singapore. These statistics prove that it is for a good reason that Singapore denies women the right, or even the torture, of having to be caned. They reserve that "right" for the men of the world that choose to mess with Singapore's
In Singapore, caning is a common form of capital punishment for every kind of felon. But one kind of felon who seems to be immune to this horrific punishment, is women. In Singapore, women, although subject to institutional caning on the hands, are not able to be sentenced to Judicial Caning, Prison Caning, Military Caning, and School Caning. Since Singapore has been founded it has been evident that women are given to easier convictions and less harsh punishment. Caning is just another way that Singapore has chosen to become a country of inequality and sexism.
There are many different opinions around the world about the controversy of gender discrimination, and even more about women not being punished the …show more content…
If women wish to gain the same rights as men, then they must envelope all of the rights and punishments. Which means that men and women alike should all be subject to caning. Does Singapore mean to say that if a woman is committed of murder, she shall not be caned? But If a boy is convicted of spray painting cars he will be caned, jailed, and fined? For example, Michael Fay, a student at Singapore American School in 1994, was sentenced to six strokes of the cane simply for vandalizing a car. Although the punishment was later reduced to 4 strokes of the cane, a boy, 19 years of age, was sentenced to a harsh punishment, and a woman convicted of the same crime of vandalism shall only be jailed and fined. A woman notable for vandalizing all around the country, only serves a short amount of time in jail and a small fee rather than strokes that leave a man with scars and swelts for life. Some people who undergo caning, cannot even continue the rest of their strikes, so instead they send them to jail until their wounds heal, and then finish off their beating another day. What is it that makes Singapore think that men deserve to be punished more than …show more content…
Out of the entire convicted penal population, only 872, roughly 8.7%, is that of convicted women. The other 9,170 inmates, consists of men ranging from below 21 years of age to above 60 years of age. One reason Singapore may have harsher punishment for men, is simply because there are ten times more men than women that are committing crimes in Singapore. These statistics prove that it is for a good reason that Singapore denies women the right, or even the torture, of having to be caned. They reserve that "right" for the men of the world that choose to mess with Singapore's