Singapore to execute a lady for first time in 20 years

Singapore is all set to execute a lady for the primary time in 20 years for trafficking 30 grams of heroin, teams mentioned Tuesday, whereas urging the executions be halted. Local rights organisation Transformative Justice Collective (TJC) mentioned a 45-year-old lady convict who TJC recognized as Saridewi Djamani is about to be despatched to the gallows on Friday. 

She was sentenced to demise in 2018 for trafficking round 30 grams of heroin.

If executed, she can be the primary lady to be hanged in Singapore since 2004 when 36-year-old hairdresser Yen May Woen was hanged for drug trafficking, mentioned TJC activist Kokila Annamalai. 

Mohd Aziz bin Hussain, a 56-year-old Singaporean Malay man, has been advised he shall be executed on Wednesday, in keeping with the TJC. 

He was sentenced to demise in 2018 after being discovered responsible of trafficking roughly 50g of heroin, the group mentioned.

The group added that the 2 prisoners are Singaporeans and their households have obtained notices setting the dates of their executions.

However, the TJC’s declare of upcoming two executions has not been but confirmed by jail officers.

Singapore imposes the demise penalty for sure crimes, together with homicide and a few types of kidnapping.

It additionally has a number of the world’s hardest anti-drug legal guidelines: trafficking greater than 500 grams of hashish and 15 grams of heroin can lead to the demise penalty.

Rights watchdog Amnesty International as we speak urged Singapore to halt the upcoming executions. Amnesty’s demise penalty knowledgeable Chiara Sangiorgio mentioned in a press release: “It is unconscionable that authorities in Singapore continue to cruelly pursue more executions in the name of drug control.

“There is no evidence that the death penalty has a unique deterrent effect or that it has any impact on the use and availability of drugs. As countries around the world do away with the death penalty and embrace drug policy reform, Singapore’s authorities are doing neither.”

A spokesman for the Singapore Prison Service mentioned: “Singaporean Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, had his capital sentence carried out today, April 26, at Changi Prison Complex.”