News Singapore executes two drug traffickers despite pleas for clemency

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Singapore executes two drug traffickers despite pleas for clemency​

Kathleen Magramo
CNN
7 Jul 2022

Excerpt:

Singapore on Thursday executed two men for drug trafficking, ignoring pleas for mercy from human rights campaigners who fear "a new wave" of hangings in the Asian city state notorious for its strict drugs laws.

Singaporean Norasharee bin Gous, 48, and Malaysian national Kalwant Singh, 31, had their capital sentences carried out on Thursday at Changi Prison Complex, the Singapore Prison Service told CNN in an email.

Their executions come just two months after Singapore controversially hanged a man with intellectual disabilities for drug trafficking and bring the total number of death sentences carried out by the country this year to four.

 

[Vastness]

Barbaric, indefensible, crimes against humanity. I long for the day when those who are complicit in this kind of shit have to answer for their crimes - although I recognise that day may never come, and the best we can hope for is that one day this kind of evil will be universally recognised as such, and the names of those who participated soiled forever, recognised as a source of shame to be denounced and eventually forgotten.