SINGAPORE, July 26 — Singapore today hanged a local man convicted of drug trafficking, officials said, two days before the scheduled execution of the first woman prisoner in...
SINGAPORE, July 26 — Singapore today hanged a local man convicted of drug trafficking, officials said, two days before the scheduled execution of the first woman prisoner in the city-state in nearly 20 years.
The 57-year-old was the 14th convict sent to the gallows since the government resumed executions in March 2022 after a two-year pause during the Covid-19 pandemic. A woman drug convict, 45-year-old Saridewi Djamani, is scheduled to be hanged on Friday, according to the local rights group Transformative Justice Collective .If carried out, Djamani would be the first woman executed in Singapore since 2004, when 36-year-old hairdresser Yen May Woen was hanged for drug trafficking, according to TJC activist Kokila Annamalai.
Rights watchdog Amnesty International yesterday urged Singapore to halt the executions, saying there was no evidence the death penalty acted as a deterrent to crime.
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