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Singapore, July 7: Kalwant Singh, an Indian-origin Malaysian drug trafficker, was executed in Singapore on Thursday after a top court rejected his last-minute effort to escape the gallows, over two months after authorities hanged a mentally challenged Indian-Malaysian drug trafficker. Singh, 31, was arrested in Singapore in 2013 for possessing 60.15 grams of diamorphine including trafficking 120.9 grams of the substance. He was convicted in 2016 and had been on death row since then. The authorities in Singapore reportedly issued […]
Early morning on Thursday (July 7th) Singapore executed a Malaysian prisoner who had been on death row for nine years. Kalwant Singh has been executed for drug trafficking. Singh had made a last-minute request for clemency, but the mercy plea was rejected by the courts in Singapore. The news of Kalwant Singh's death as per The Star was confirmed by Singaporean human rights activist Kirsten Han in her tweets. Norasharee Gous, a Singaporean who was detained and accused in connection with the same case as Kalwant, was also hung for drug trafficking, according to Han.
Singapore has defended its tough stance on drugs and retention of the death penalty, with minister K. Shanmugam saying he did not have ‘any doubts’ about the policy.