would be or will be?

[kohyoongliat]

"If I removed the death penalty, the flow of drugs into Singapore will be much higher. Your lives, your siblings’ lives, many other lives would be at risk. More people will die in Singapore if we removed the death penalty,” he said then.

Shouldn’t it be “would be” instead of “will be” and "would die” instead of “will die”?

Thanks.

 

[jutfrank]

Yes, on the presumption that this is meant as a hypothetical.

You have to tell us whom you're quoting, and where you saw/heard it.