Opinion and reporting By Mathew Carr
August 3-5, 2024 –Weirdly ….the difficult-to-find Singapore statement on the execution does not mention the name of the real person that unforgiving officials and judges organised to be killed over multiple years — of course they never made any serious mistakes in their lives?! Is that right?
The statement hides the name to protect the privacy of the family. Yet capital punishment is meant to act as a deterrent.
Some weak government officials use the excuse of privacy to hide bad behavior…which capital punishment is … and to dehumanize situations that hurt real people in the extreme.
Singapore allows brutally violent USA — stoking a war in Asia while supporting the murder of babies in Gaza — to have two military bases on its shores … so the hypocrisy is appalling.
Why should non-violent crimes suffer the death penalty when governments deploy violence every day?
I’m naming the executed (below) because it’s already a well-known case, his human dignity is important and addressing the arrogance of death sentences is more important than the family’s privacy (my judgement – with apologies to his family).
Please stop reading now if you want to protect the brutally killed man’s family’s privacy …sigh.
https://www.cnb.gov.sg/newsandevents/news
Back in 2020
Last minute dismissiveness — see judgement here
Death penalty lawyer MRavi (who tried to save Moad Fadzir bin Mustaffa) was sent to jail on the same day his former client was hanged — you could not make this stuff up
The first application to stop the execution was filed in 2020, two days before the original scheduled date of his execution, through his then counsel, Mr Ravi Madasamy.…also known as MRavi (below) (from pdf above).
Me earlier Saturday asking the (incompetent and sub human?) Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs whether the execution had taken place:
Press:
https://www.barrons.com/news/drug-trafficker-hanged-in-singapore-narcotics-bureau-830d8a76
Drug Trafficker Hanged In Singapore: Narcotics Bureau
By AFP – Agence France Presse
August 2, 2024
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The Barron’s Daily
Singapore on Friday hanged a convicted drug trafficker, authorities said, in the city-state’s second execution this year.
The 45-year-old Singaporean man was executed at Changi prison for trafficking 36.93 grams (1.3 ounces)of pure heroin, more than twice the 15 grams that merits the death penalty in the strict city-state, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said.
Rights groups declined to give details about the convict’s identity and his case as the family has requested privacy.
“He was accorded full due process under the law, and was represented by legal counsel throughout the process,” CNB said in a statement late Friday.
The man was convicted and sentenced to death in February 2019, and his legal appeals and petition for clemency have been dismissed, CNB added.
In February, a 35-year-old Bangladeshi man, Ahmed Salim, was sent to the gallows for the murder of his former fiancee in Singapore.
Friday’s execution brings the number of people hanged since Singapore resumed executions in March 2022 to 18, according to an AFP tally.
Please let me know at mathew@carrzee.net if you think any of this above is unfair …or if you want to make a comment.
(Apologies … an earlier version of this story was confusing)
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