A lawyer for a Malaysian man sentenced to hang for smuggling heroin into Singapore asked judges for mercy during his appeal on Tuesday, and urged more time to seek further psychiatric assessment to prove his mental impairment.
Nagaenthran Dharmalingam has been on death row for more than a decade for trafficking 42 grammes of heroin into Singapore, which has some of the world's toughest narcotics laws. He has appealed on the grounds of mental disability.
Singapore hanged 25 people from 2016 to 2019, according to official data, mostly for drug-related crimes. The lawyer had objected to presenting the records, which included a psychiatric assessment, citing patient confidentiality.
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