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Singapore Hangs 2nd Citizen in Three Weeks Despite Calls to Halt Executions

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0:00 and isn't it somebody's job to make sure that this person is dead and declared dead what do they call them what's the number for like the Executioner yeah okay it's just execution you dead you guys dead I think it's one step before that don't you dare fake it I'm gonna declare you dead unless you speak up [Music] we kind of talked about this earlier too but Singapore hangs its second citizen in three weeks for trafficking cannabis despite calls to Halt execute bro you just gotta stop bringing drugs into Singapore please God damn it dude they're not playing yeah how many times dude just don't even think about it just stop trying yeah it's kind of that's where was the person from don't say Malaysia because that's

0:51 usually what's ████ happening right does it say what what month they're born well this was a 37 year old man who got executed uh after his last ditch bid to reopen his case was dismissed by court Tuesday he was not named as his family as privacy but had been in prison for seven years and convicted in 2019 for trafficking around 1.5 kilos or 3.3 pounds of cannabis don't do that just stop bringing that ████ in basically the court rejected it three pounds yeah under Singapore laws trafficking more than 500 grams or 1.1 pounds of cannabis may result in the death penalty just do a little bit less than that they're gonna kill that one dude who was like I had a proven IQ of like a baby remember that and he was manipulated they manipulate this guy to be a mule and he brought drugs in and then uh all these celebrities were

1:42 pleading to Singapore to not kill him because he doesn't know what he did and they did it anyway tweeted it with but do it yeah I saw Richard Branson posting about it right yeah don't do it Richard brentz is asking like all these people are playing this is the dirty guy right dirty the leader no that's Philippines but they'll kill you for just having drugs in general but at the airport they can they can kill you on the spot right I mean it seems that these people are being tried still but um some 60 prisoners on a death row in the city-state mostly for drug-related offenses right now offenses right now Singapore executed 11 people last year for drug offenses after a two-year Hiatus due to kovid the hanging in one particular Malaysian believes to be mentally disabled sparked that International outcry yeah if you want to

2:33 sell drugs just come over here just find another Market man that's crazy even though it was only when I first went in like 2007 the first thing I saw when I got off the plane were the signs showing you like it's like a it was like a silhouette of a dude with a rifle on a kneeling guy and it said like capital punishment for all drug related offenses yeah they don't play dude yeah you know how people like moved to LA to pursue acting like you should move here to pursue drug selling instead of yeah man yeah very popular area for the drugs way safer here and it's like dude you can make friends it's peaceful you go to Singapore you could indulge in sex tourism oh wait that was with uh Walter you're talking about but yeah that's a you could do a lot of stuff in Singapore is it sexy times legal there I think it is I think it's sexuals in there yeah dude the sexy

3:24 times in Singapore and sell the drugs over here yeah dude you can't have it all in one place okay you guys dude I remember when it's Singapore it was the cleanest city I've ever been to there's not one piece of gum on the floor I got yelled at for drinking water dude I got yelled at on the street are you crazy not on the street but it was it was a mall slash uh train station and I was like chilling right in between and I was drinking a bottle of water and this Old Uncle were you walking no I was chilling I was waiting for my mom and you can't drink water in public well I was in the train station there's no drinking water on the train station yeah it makes a mess and then the old Uncle who was in the security office like a outfit he came up to me and was like we have cameras everywhere we saw you drink water you can't be drinking water in here and just lecturing me he's I'll give you a ticket next time you do that and I was like sorry bro ████ so I bottled it up and I just put it away wow and that was over a

4:16 bottle of water the whip the Whip you for spitting gum on the or spitting on the floor or something that's kind of cool that's why it's so clean but that's why they have those ones you'll go to jail for getting in a fight so literally it says ah ████ what was the wording it has like there's also signs that are talking about like uh there's something to do with like don't regret like one night for like 30 years wanna spend the night start a fight there was an initiative the first the first time I was there there was like a a nationwide campaign to smile more and to say hello because um there was I guess there's a thing in Singapore back then where people were so shy that tourists like it was not a good experience so they wanted to promote like saying hello asking if you need help fighting something uh if someone asks you what the time is like answer them it's like people always shy away they are pretty helpful these days yeah yeah it's pretty cool that they did that

5:07 but it's cool they could just change the culture of like the citizen like that yeah I guess because it's one of those things where they're like hey if you want tourism to pick up we need money to come in so be nicer to people you could also drive across the whole island in like 30 minutes smaller than L.A County I'm just saying it's easier it's easier to manage like a body of people when it's like the conditions are more convenient yeah yeah now did they change change that because they talk to them or because there was a consequence if you didn't like smile or die I think it really wasn't about yourself real quick the tone is a little different there I think it's one of those things where the culture just understands that they're in it together it's not like here where everyone's like nah ████ that like there they were like oh you know we want this result let's get it together that's crazy it reminds me of Japan everybody's all unified together yeah it's kind of crazy plus it's like when people criticize Singapore and they'd be like look at all

5:57 the inhumane like uh consequences for all this ████ it's like you can't talk ████ on a country the size of this County that is making that much success honestly they're probably doing it right hate to say it but it's like it must be going well yeah it's like have you licked the sidewalk it's clean it's just the fact that children can hang out at 2 A.M and there's no like fear that something is gonna happen dude we saw some kids hop off the bus and then we started walking around yeah they're like like eight years old just walking by themselves yeah all right bye and they walk home you can't you don't see that over here so dope I love it three weeks ago uh the Singaporean was actually hanged for in the first execution of this year for trafficking one kilogram or 2.2 pounds of cannabis although he was not caught with the drugs prosecutor said phone numbers traced him as the person

6:47 responsible for coordinating the delivery so I imagine you're not even like touching it or you're just coordinating the delivery you get caught you're hung you're just an accomplice when we were there in 2019 the bus the cab driver was telling us about how um like weed is pretty popular over there but so is ice that's like the main drug over there is that synthetic I don't even know what that means ice yeah like frozen water cocaine is that is that okay do you think uh celebrities since you like know a lot or like the Asian celebrities do you think they're Above the Law over there not in China or like in Singapore in Singapore that's what the cab driver was saying he was like all the politicians do that ████ because I know I knew because like a lot of like uh like Korean Korea is Pretty Tough too but then a lot of like Korean celebrities are like they can operate

7:38 Above the Law and it's easy for them to get weed and do all that stuff so I was wondering like if it's like if you're an Asian pop star if you even when you get to Singapore you're like okay we better ████ be careful or can they operate Above the Law I'm sure they're probably above law they probably have more to lose though so they probably actually stay away for real for real oh but it's all about appearances so I mean as long as you're not seen doing it that's why they'd be drinking heavy and smoking cigarettes like days you know like all day but when it comes to something that is like within the legal parameter of being like this is wrong then I feel like they stay away up more often but yeah I'd rather not die it's a flex too when like let's say that you're you're like at a level in in uh the Emirates let's say you're like a person that lives in the Emirates like Dubai and you're at that level where you're above the law if you have visitors come in

8:29 it's a flex to give them those same things that you do to be like hey you wanna you wanna go get girls you want to go get drugs like it's a flex to extend that yeah so it's like probably works like that in Singapore too hey yo look at you with your Dubai Flags just selling out all my insiders apart from Singapore Amnesty International said Indonesia carried out 112 drug-related executions last year by firing squad after Hiatus since 2016. in contrast neighboring Thailand has legalized cannabis while Malaysia has ended the mandatory death penalty for serious crimes if you survive a firing squad do they shoot you a second time you become president or do you like do you like uh they're just gonna keep shooting that's not fair until you drop

9:19 it can't just be like okay everyone here gets the culture at one time and then like if you like if they're like right when they shoot they get into like a weird stance and you somehow don't get hit they should be able to survive and like I like that rule actually because then it's okay God wanted me to live take matters in your own hands you know right because that's ████ up everyone gets to like shoot you and then every time you keep moving yeah and they get to shoot you 10 more times but murdered somebody by shooting them like a hundred times and then you're like oh you guys only get one bullet yeah so 50 Cent if he got shot seven times in Singapore he would have died because they would have kept shooting yeah they want to stop at Seven it's like oh I made it I made it damn man because 50 Cent got shot seven different times right was that I think one time one time seven yeah one time and one in one incident really but then all that once I thought it was seven times one time

10:10 his attitude dude after like the six would be like oh God damn come on he's like I'm Invincible yeah dude why doesn't anyone like me seven different guys one time same spot because yeah if you get the electric chair like let's say uh right and then the okay this guy's dead so the tip carry on on a stretcher and then they're like wait I'm alive dude they go let's bring them back yeah yeah do-over yeah I don't think they're like congratulations walk on home but I think they yeah I think they quietly just kill you shake them a bun hello you got a brand new car and isn't it somebody's job to make sure that this person is dead and declared dead what do

11:00 they call them what's the name like the Executioner yeah okay it's just the Executioner the corner just make it you dead you guys dead I mean I think it's one step before that don't you dare ████ fake it I'm gonna declare you dead unless you speak up speak now or you're fighting yeah I think chopping heads off is more um theatrical bring back the guillotes it's more more what's the word like oh like he's dead for sure more guaranteed yeah more Guillotine it is it is kind of funny that like oh imagine the blade gets stuck out way to the neck though [Applause] everybody's pushing on it hey put your weight on it here it Go step get on my back is ████ up hook it up man now you need one swing rule you need to battle ax one swing it is it is so strange that

11:52 like we keep eliminating methods of of uh capital punishment because of inhumanity yet like the ones that are left over you can still look scrutinize and go that's inhumane now to the new standard dude killing someone is inhumane yeah but so are the people ████ so are the crimes right yeah bro come on [Music]

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