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Malaysian Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, who was arrested for trafficking 42.72g of heroin into Singapore in 2009, had his capital sentence carried out today (April 27) at Changi Prison Complex, said the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) in response to media queries. Nagaenthran, who was arrested at Woodlands Checkpoint 13 years ago, was bringing in nearly half a kilo of a powdery...

Calls for clemency failed in country known for having some of the world’s harshest anti-drugs laws.

A Malaysian man convicted of drug trafficking was executed on Wednesday in Singapore despite appeals for clemency on the grounds that he had an intellectual disability, his family said.

His lawyers had filed multiple appeals against his execution saying he was intellectually disabled

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 […]