Today Singapore hanged a prisoner convicted of conspiracy to smuggle one kilogram of marijuana.
This is in accordance with officials, defying worldwide calls for the city-state to abolish the death penalty.
Singapore defied requests from United Nations Human Rights Office and calls by British tycoon Richard Branson pleading with the Country to “urgently reconsider” the hanging and halt the death sentence.
“Singaporean Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, had his capital sentence carried out today at Changi Prison Complex,” a Singapore Prisons Service official told AFP.
Tangaraju was found guilty in 2017 of “abetting by engaging in a conspiracy to traffic” 1,017.9 grams (35.9 ounces) of cannabis, which was more than twice the minimum amount necessary for a death sentence in Singapore.
In 2018, he was condemned to death, and the Court of Appeal affirmed the conviction.
