Singapore executes Malaysian on drug costs after rejecting psychological incapacity attraction

SINGAPORE: A Malaysian man convicted of drug trafficking was executed in Singapore on Wednesday regardless of his attraction for clemency on grounds of mental incapacity, his household mentioned.
Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, 34, was jailed for greater than a decade for trafficking 44 grams (1.5 ounces) of heroin into Singapore, which has a number of the hardest drug legal guidelines on this planet. His attorneys have repeatedly appealed his execution, saying he’s mentally handicapped.
His 22-year-old brother, Naveen Kumar, mentioned by cellphone that the execution had been carried out and mentioned the physique could be returned to Malaysia, the place a funeral could be held within the city of Ipoh.
On Tuesday, a Singapore court docket dismissed a authorized problem by Nagentland’s mom, clearing the best way for executions by hanging.
On the conclusion of Tuesday’s listening to, Dharmalingam and his household reached out by way of a spot within the glass display screen to carry one another’s arms tightly as they wept. Cries of “mother” may very well be heard across the courtroom.
About 300 folks held a candlelight vigil in a Singapore park on Monday to protest the deliberate hanging.
Nagaenthran’s case has caught the world’s consideration, with a gaggle of UN consultants and British billionaire Richard Branson becoming a member of Malaysia’s prime minister and human rights activists urging Singapore to commute his loss of life sentence.
His attorneys and activists mentioned Nagentland’s IQ was discovered to be 69, a stage thought-about mental incapacity. Nonetheless, the court docket discovered he knew what he was doing on the time of the crime and dominated that there was no admissible proof of any decline in his psychological state.
The Singapore authorities says the loss of life penalty is a deterrent to drug trafficking, and most residents help the loss of life penalty.