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Trafficking more than 15 grams of heroin merits the death penalty under Singapore's tough drug laws. hanged a 59-year-old man on August 7 for drug trafficking, authorities said, the second execution in the city-state in less than a week.
The United Nations and rights groups say capital punishment has no proven deterrent effect and have called for it to be discontinued. Singaporean officials, however, insist it has helped make the country one of Asia's safest. "The capital sentence of death imposed on a 59-year-old Singaporean was carried out on Aug. 7," the Central Narcotics Bureau said in a statement.Trafficking more than 15 grams of heroin merits the death penalty under Singapore's tough drug laws.
"He was accorded full due process under the law, and was represented by legal counsel throughout the process," the CNB said. "He appealed against his conviction and sentence, and the Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal on May 11, 2022. His petition to the president for clemency was unsuccessful.”It was the second execution in Singapore in less than a week and the third this year.In February, a 35-year-old Bangladeshi man, Ahmed Salim, was sent to the gallows for the murder of his former fiancee inThe execution on Aug.
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