Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a mentally disabled Indian-origin Malaysian man convicted in a drug trafficking case, was executed in Singapore on Wednesday, his family told the media after his mother's appeal was dismissed by Court of Appeal on Tuesday.
Singapore, Apr 27: Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a mentally challenged Indian-origin Malaysian man found guilty of drug trafficking, was executed in Singapore on Wednesday, his family said, after a top court dismissed a last-ditch legal challenge from his mother in a controversial case that caught global attention and attracted calls for clemency. Dharmalingam, 34, was arrested in 2009 for trafficking 42.72 grams of heroin into Singapore, which has some of the world’s toughest drugs laws, and was handed a death sentence the following […]
The Singapore Court of Appeal on Tuesday rejected a legal challenge filed by the mother of an Indian-origin Malaysian drug trafficker as an eleventh hour attempt to halt the hanging of her son that is scheduled at the country’s Changi prison on Wednesday.