Singapore hangs 14th drug convict since last year
Singapore has some of the world’s toughest anti-drug laws – trafficking more than 500 grammes of cannabis or over 15 grammes of heroin can result in the death penalty. – EPA pic, July 26, 2023.
SINGAPORE today hanged a local man convicted of drug trafficking, officials said, two days before the scheduled execution of the first woman prisoner in the city-state in nearly 20 years. Mohd Aziz Hussain, convicted and sentenced to death in 2017 for trafficking “not less than 49.98 grams” of heroin, was executed at Changi Prison, the Central Narcotics Bureau said in a statement.
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