Double execution on 2 August 2022
According to local death penalty activists, not long after a 49-year-old man was hanged at dawn for trafficking Cannabis on 26 July 2022, 2 families received notice that their loved ones will be executed on 2 August 2022.
Kokila Annamalai, who is in touch with the families of death row inmates, tweeted that a 32-year-old Malaysian man, and a 44-year-old Singaporean man, are set to be executed on 2 August 2022.
The 2 men were arrested in May 2015 for trafficking diamorphine. They were jointly tried and convicted of trafficking 53g of diamorphine by the High Court of Singapore in January 2018. As the Prosecution did not issue any certificate of substantive assistance to either man (which may have allowed the High Court Judge to sentence the men to life imprisonment), the Judge imposed the mandatory sentence of death on both.
Their appeals against their conviction were dismissed by the Court of Appeal in October 2018.
In August 2021, the Court of Appeal dismissed a criminal motion that one of the men filed in a bid to seek the Apex Court to review its decision of October 2018 in light of the Court’s decision in Gobi Avedian. The man was represented by a senior counsel for the criminal motion. In dismissing the application, the Court of Appeal held that “the Judge imposed the mandatory sentence of death on both.”
6 executions in 4 weeks?
This is the 2nd time in less than 4 weeks that a double execution has been scheduled. On 7 July 2022, Norasharee bin Gous and Kalwant Singh were both executed.
If the double execution goes ahead, a total of 6 men would have been executed in less than 4 weeks. It will also bring the total number of men executed in 2022 to 8.
Activists note that these are the executions that their groups, through communications with the families of death row inmates, know about. They do not discount the possibility that there may have been men and women executed that they do not know of. As far as these activists know, the Singaporean authorities do not publish notices of executions.
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