The executions resumed in Singapore about a year ago after a two-year hiatus. A total of 13 prisoners have been hanged since then.
Singapore, a city-state located in Southeast Asia, has already executed another prisoner within three weeks, local officials say. In 2019, the prisoner was convicted of smuggling around 1.5 kg of cannabis.
– A spokesman for the city-state’s prison service told AFP news agency that the 36-year-old Singaporean man was executed today at the Changi prison complex.
A final request by a local human rights group to re-investigate the case and postpone the execution was rejected on Tuesday.
In late April, Singapore hanged a prisoner convicted of smuggling one kilo of cannabis. Human rights groups said the investigation into the case was flawed, but Singapore’s government said the prisoner’s guilt had been proven.
Singapore’s anti-narcotics laws are among the strictest in the world. Selling more than 500 grams of cannabis can be punishable by death. The city-state believes that the death penalty remains an effective deterrent against drug trafficking.
Human rights activists have demanded that the city-state halt the executions.
“The Singapore government’s call (to end the death penalty) is loud and clear around the world, and we reiterate this call: Singapore should end the execution,” Katrina Joren Maliyamaw, Managing Director of Amnesty International Malaysia, told reporters in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. Should do
– They should commute all existing death sentences, he continued.
The executions resumed in Singapore about a year ago after a two-year hiatus. A total of 13 prisoners have been hanged since then.
