Tracing the history of the Anti-Death Penalty Movements in Singapore

Chia, Priscilla; Zeng, Rachel; Tay, Audrey; Min, Koh Shi

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“…Singapore is located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula and is affected by monsoons. The Northeast monsoon season from December to March, which is associated with the highest monthly rainfall and weaker winds, and the Southwest monsoon season from June to September, which corresponds to a relatively drier period, are separated by two brief intermonsoon or premonsoon periods [ Chia and Foong , ]. There is no large and pronounced topography.…”

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Impact of urbanization patterns on the local climate of a tropical city, Singapore: An ensemble study

Koh

Panda

et al. 2016

JGR Atmospheres

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The effect of urbanization and urbanization pattern on the thermal environment and local rainfall is investigated in the tropical coastal city, Singapore. The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is employed with 5 one-way nested domains and the highest horizontal resolution is 300 m. The urban effect is taken into account by a single-layer urban canopy model. Several scenarios with idealized urbanization patterns are designed and simulated for an ensemble of 28 members. In the asymmetric urbanization scenarios, in which either the southern or northern part of Singapore is urbanized while the other part is forest, the magnitude of urban heat island (UHI) intensity is higher than that in the symmetric urbanization scenario, in which the urban and forest land use is homogeneously distributed in Singapore. The anthropogenic heat (AH) associated with the urban areas will exacerbate the UHI intensity. Most of the rainfall in the examined cases occurs from late morning to afternoon when the sea breeze blows northeastward. The results suggest that sea breezes have stronger influence on the rainfall than the urbanization pattern since the downwind part always gets more rainfall than the upwind part. The urbanization and associated AH can have two opposite effects on the rainfall amount: increasing rainfall through increasing buoyancy by AH and decreasing rainfall through reducing evaporation by converting greenery to impervious surfaces. The ultimate effect is dependent on the relative strength of these two influences.

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Impact of urbanization patterns on the local climate of a tropical city, Singapore: An ensemble study

Koh

Panda

et al. 2016

JGR Atmospheres

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“…Yet, despite the obvious historical, political, social and legal parallels, past studies concerning the death penalty have been nation-centric. For instance, studies that have examined the political strategies of abolitionist movements centred on the 'war on drugs' in Singapore but not Malaysia, despite the fact that Malaysian nationals account for a high percentage of Singapore's death row population (Chia et al 2017;Yap and Tan 2020).…”

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Framing Death Penalty Politics in Malaysia

Kananatu

2022

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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The death penalty in Malaysia is a British colonial legacy that has undergone significant scrutiny in recent times. While the Malaysian Federal Constitution 1957 provides that ‘no person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty save in accordance with law’, there are several criminal offences (including drug-related crimes) that impose the mandatory and discretionary death penalty. Using Benford and Snow’s framing processes, this paper reviews death penalty politics in Malaysia by analysing the rhetoric of abolitionists and retentionists. The abolitionists, comprising activist lawyers and non-government organisations, tend to use ‘human rights’ and ‘injustice’ frames, which humanise the ‘criminal’ and gain international support. The retentionists, such as victims’ families, use a ‘victims’ justice’ frame emphasising the ‘inhuman’ nature of violent crimes. In addition, the retentionist state shifts between ‘national security’ and ‘national development’ frames. This paper finds that death penalty politics in Malaysia is predominantly a politics of framing.

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Tracing the history of the Anti-Death Penalty Movements in Singapore

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Impact of urbanization patterns on the local climate of a tropical city, Singapore: An ensemble study

Impact of urbanization patterns on the local climate of a tropical city, Singapore: An ensemble study

Framing Death Penalty Politics in Malaysia

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