A Malaysian man convicted of drug trafficking has been executed in Singapore despite appeals for clemency on the grounds that he had an intellectual disability, his family says.
, 34, had been on death row for more than a decade for trafficking 1.5 ounces of heroin into Singapore, which has some of the world’s toughest narcotics laws. His lawyers had filed multiple appeals against his execution saying he was intellectually disabled.His brother Navin Kumar, 22, said by telephone the execution had been carried out and said the body would be sent back to Malaysia, where a funeral would be held in the town of Ipoh.
At the end of Tuesday’s hearing, Dharmalingam and his family reached through a gap in a glass screen to grasp each other’s hands tightly as they wept. His cries of “ma” could be heard around the courtroom. Nagaenthran’s case has attracted world attention, with a group of United Nations experts and British billionaire Richard Branson joining Malaysia’s prime minister and human rights activists to urge Singapore to commute his death sentence.
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