PETALING JAYA - There are 10 Malaysians who remain on death row in Singapore, after two others were convicted for drug trafficking and hanged there earlier this year. Read more at straitstimes.com.
He was arrested there in 2013 for possessing 60.15g of diamorphine, including trafficking 120.9g of the substance, and convicted three years later.
On local and external pressure to halt the executions of those sentenced to death, Mr Shanmugam said such pressure held little sway in Singapore to influence the fate of a convict once sealed.Joseph Schooling took cannabis overseas; swimmer Amanda Lim gets stern warning from CNB Acknowledging that there were parties who genuinely opposed capital punishment, he said such groups must be differentiated from those who exploited the issue for certain reasons.
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