Press Release: 24 June 2003

CASSA CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLIC EXECUTION OF CANNY ONG’S MURDERER!
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The Consumers Association of Subang and Shah Alam Selangor (CASSA) today urged the government to have a public execution of those found guilty of rape and murder to check the rapid rise in such violent crimes in the country!

The present legal process is outdated and abused , archaic and has not acted as a deterrent which is clearly obvious to policymakers, legal intelligentsia and the civil society!

Instead, the rather long legal procedure and appeal process is abused by those who have indulged in serious violent crimes against individuals and the society at large and who during the process are seen laughing and joking and even having the audacity to plead not guilty to chargers when the evidence gathered is overwhelming and where confessions have already been voluntarily given!

As the result the families of the victims are made to suffer humiliation, physical and mental agony and relive the brutality of the crime committed against their loved one!

The irony in all these is the entire proceedings is at the public costs!

Have the families of such brutalized victims not suffered enough?

CASSA compliments the police for the professional manner in which they have apprehended the culprit and pleads that this fine action continued with a fast track legal procedure followed by a public execution of the suspect at Merdeka Square!

Dato Dr. Jacob George
President/Legal Adviser
CASSA