Singapore Executes Fifth Drug Trafficker Since March
The spate of hangings has prompted growing calls for Singapore to abolish the death penalty.
SINGAPORE \- Singapore hanged a drug trafficker on Friday, July 22, the fifth execution in the city-state since March, after a court rejected a last-ditch appeal and despite pleas for clemency. The spate of hangings – which included the widely criticized execution of a mentally disabled man in April – has prompted growing calls for Singapore to abolish the death penalty. But the city-state, which has some of the world’s toughest anti-drugs laws, insists it remains an effective deterrent against trafficking. On Friday, Singaporean man Nazeri Lajim was executed in prison, the prisons service sai...