Singapore on Wednesday executed a man for conspiring to traffic roughly 2 pounds of cannabis that he was not alleged to have directly handled, a decision that an international opponent of capital punishment called “reminiscent of medieval times.”
in September 2013 through a phone number that he denied having access to at the time. He was sentenced to hang in 2018, under Singapore’s near-mandatory death penalty policy for trafficking more than 1.1 pounds of cannabis.that his rights were not adequately protected, and had called on the government to halt the execution.
Singapore’s Home Affairs Ministry did not directly respond to questions sent by The Washington Post. It pointed toby its Central Narcotics Bureau, which said that capital punishment is “used only for the most serious crimes” as part of the city’s “comprehensive harm prevention strategy which targets both drug demand and supply.” It said that Tangaraju was “accorded full due process under the law” and called the assertion he had requested an interpreter “disingenuous.
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