SINGAPORE Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan replied to their Malaysian counterparts on Tuesday, to convey that Malaysian Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam was accorded full due process under the law.

A Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman said this in a statement issued in response to media queries on the appeal letters from Malaysian leaders on the execution.

Wisma Putra on Thursday said the Malaysian government – via Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah – again sent letters to their Singaporean counterparts in an effort to ask the republic to consider and commute Nagaenthran’s sentence.

The first letter was sent by the duo in November 2021.

A month later, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong sent a letter to the republic’s president to commute Nagaenthran’s sentence.

Nagaenthran, 34, was executed at Changi Prison in Singapore on April 27.

The Perak man was sentenced to death in 2010 for trafficking 42.72g of heroin into Singapore in 2009.

He was supposed to be executed on November 10, 2021, but found respite on November 9, after the court was told he tested positive for Covid-19 when he appeared for a final appeal against his death sentence.

Nagaenthran’s lawyers claimed that he is intellectually disabled. – Bernama, April 29, 2022.