[Sg] - Singapore to execute "Singaporean - Indian National"(?) over 1kg of cannabis in first capital punishment of 2023

[UltimaOnline]

Authorities in Singapore are set to execute a man for his involvement in trafficking 1kg cannabis which his family claims he has never even touched.

Singapore is known for its strict enforcement of laws and has faced growing calls to ban the death penalty. Scores of protesters last year had come out to demonstrate against capital punishment when the government resumed the practice after the Covid pandemic.

The execution of Singaporean Tamil national(???) Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, will be the first instance of capital punishment carried out this year.

The Singapore Prison Service confirmed Suppiah’s execution will be carried out on 26 April at Changi prison and informed his family members on Wednesday.

Suppiah was convicted of abetting by engaging in a conspiracy to traffic 1,017.9g of cannabis in 2017 and sentenced to the death penalty in December 2018.


https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/...-suppiah-death-penalty-cannabis-b2323481.html

 

[glockman]

All offences involving hard drugs should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but weed? Come on!

 

[tobelightlight]

Thailand is legal for cannabis and it is a plant. it has no harm at all. Get rid of PAP with their sub-par intelligence and incompetence.

 

[red amoeba]

All it matters is that he is a nigger / ah neh. That’s fine. I don’t want to cover his living expenses in death row.

 

[eatshitndie]

if amdk will get only 6.9 weeks.

 

[Loofydralb]

When a case as weak as this where the person who doesn't do drugs, ever touched drugs, only evidence is a phone call.
And where a rich man affiliated to PAP can perjure in court, and get away with a small fine

You know the country is full of kangaroos

 

[Peter Ahmad Muniandy Wong]

Better not go easy on cannabis. Otherwise our anthem may start like this:

Mari wanna Rakyat Singapura,
Sama-sama merokok .......

 

[laksaboy]

The Poms are confused regarding nationality and ethnicity matters. For example, Pakis and subcontinentals are 'Asians' to them, but yellowskin Japs, Chinks etc are 'Orientals', a different category.

 

[syed putra]

You don't see cops raiding the elite night spots where drugs are openly consumed and traded by mostly the chinese community. These same drug lords will entrap 9ne poor malay or indian to traffic some low quality drugs and inform police in order to satisfy narcotics dept kpi's.