Tan Chor Jin aka OED
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Chor_Jin
Death row and execution
During the process of appeals, Tan Chor Jin was confined on
death row in
Changi Prison. He was said to have
converted to Buddhism while in jail, and adopted a
Buddhist name for himself.
He also befriended some of the death row inmates, including
Leong Siew Chor, a notorious murderer who killed his 22-year-old lover Liu Hong Mei before dismembering her body into seven pieces and abandoning them at
Kallang River.
Leong was hanged at the age of 52 on 30 November 2007 for this gruesome crime. Coincidentally, Leong was one of the clients of Tan's lawyer Subhas Anandan.
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During the final days of his life, there were more than 100 relatives and acquaintances who went to pay their last visits to Tan, with each visit stretched to a few hours.
One of Tan's nephews was so distraught that he fainted and had to be taken to another room to rest given the huge amount of respect he fondly had for his uncle and the notion that Tan would be executed.
As his last meal before his execution, Tan ate his family's home-cooked meal, which included
abalone, his favourite food, as he sat together with his family members.
He also made a final wish to atone his sins and save lives by donating his organs, specifically his kidneys, liver and the cornea of his remaining eye.
One of them was rumoured to be donated to
Tang Wee Sung, a businessman who tried to illegally purchase a kidney for transplant, as he was said to have received it soon after Tan's hanging.
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On 9 January 2009, 42-year-old Tan Chor Jin was hanged at dawn
. According to a monk, who accompanied Tan for the last three hours before his execution, he said that Tan had passed on peacefully. His body was cremated and the ashes were scattered into the sea after his funeral