SINGAPORE GOVT HANGS THIRD DRUG TRAFFICKER IN A WEEK
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According to Singapore’s narcotics enforcement agency, a 55-year-old man was hanged on Friday for drug trafficking. This was the city-state’s third execution in a week, despite a UN request for a moratorium.
Singaporean officials maintain that the death penalty has contributed to making their nation one of the safest in Asia, despite the United Nations and human rights organizations calling for its abolition and claiming it has no shown deterrent impact.
Rosman Abdullah was given the death penalty after being found guilty of trafficking 57.43 grams (2.03 ounces) of heroin, according to Singapore’s Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB).
Any amount beyond the 15-gram threshold carries the death penalty under the nation’s strict drug laws.
The hanging at Changi jail came after two men, a 39-year-old Malaysian and a 53-year-old Singaporean, were executed on November 15 for narcotics trafficking.
“Rosman was accorded full due process under the law, and was represented by legal counsel throughout the process,” CNB said in a statement.
The Singaporean had used up all of his appeals, including one for the president’s clemency, before being convicted in July 2010.
He was the eighth person executed in the city-state this year; the other seven were for drug trafficking, and the eighth was for murder.
Since resuming the capital penalty in March 2022 following a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 outbreak, Singapore has executed 24 people, according to an AFP count.
On Thursday, the UN reaffirmed its request that Singapore reconsider its stance on the death penalty.
“The use of the death penalty for drug-related offences is incompatible with international human rights law. There is increasing evidence showing the ineffectiveness of capital punishment as a deterrent,” UN Human Rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said in a statement.
The CNB, however, said capital punishment was “imposed only for the most serious crimes, such as the trafficking of significant quantities of drugs which cause very serious harm” to users and society at large.
AFP
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