November 10 execution for mentally disabled Malaysian man in Singapore


Singapore will hang on November 10 a mentally disabled Malaysian man who was found guilty in 2019 of illegally importing to the republic 42.72g of diamorphine. – EPA pic, October 28, 2021.

NAGAENTHRAN K Dharmalingam, the Malaysian citizen who is on death row in Singapore for a drug offence, will be executed on November 10, Lawyers for Liberty advisor N. Surendran said today.

“Nagaenthran was convicted in 2011 of illegally importing 42.72g of diamorphine, and sentenced to death under the draconian Misuse of Drugs Act.


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  • Barbaric. Boycott anything to do with Singapore

    Posted 2 years ago by John Wotherspoon

  • From Hong Kong we petition the Singapore Government to spare the life of Mr Nagaenthran Dharmalingam who is on the death row of Singapore Prison Service, 980 Upper Changi Road North, Singapore.

    He is a mentally disabled Malaysian Man. The letter informing his family that he would be executed is really awful. Instead of writing: "Dear mother, please be informed that your son will receive proper medical treatment in a good hospital very soon", the letter states: "Dear(?!) Madam, please (?!) be informed that the death sentence passed on your son will be carried out on 10 November 2021 (Wednesday)"! Following there are other points about travel arrangements according to COVID-19 requirements for the mother and family members to go to Singapore and see him for the last time.

    The letter shows a kind of clinical, administrative, inhuman, and horrifying cruelty according to a person who is in touch with his family.

    In fact he has been diagnosed with a borderline intellectual disability. Committees of the General Assembly of the United Nations have long pointed out that the execution of persons with mental disorders violates international human rights standards. In any case, people with mental disorders should be spared from being sentenced to death. The United Nations Human Rights Committee has long argued that "drug related crimes' do not fall within the scope of the "most serious crimes" punishable by the death penalty.
    Given the punishment itself is extremely cruel and inhumane, there is no evidence to show that the death penalty is effective in deterring crimes.

    No one, including the Government and its Courts, has the right to deprive other people of their lives.

    The global trend in civilization development is to stop all executions and abolish the death penalty. That's even more urgent in Singapore, which has the highest toll of executions per capita in the world!

    Therefore we call on Singapore Government and Courts to:
    -Stop the execution of Mr Nagaenthran A/L K Dharmalingam.
    -Grant him a new trial.
    -End all executions and abolish the death penalty.

    Sincerely,

    Hong Kong Joint Committee on the Abolition of the Death Penalty ( c/o 843, Clear Water Bay Road N.T. Hong Kong)


    Fr. John Wotherspoon ([email protected])
    Fr. Franco Mella

    Posted 2 years ago by John Wotherspoon