Singapore executes disabled Malaysian convicted in drug case

I don't think anyone has a mental incapacity to traffic drugs to another country.

You know that there are countries that do not tolerate drug trafficking, bad decisions are sometimes paid dearly...

Dear US, do you want to end your drug problem??.. Follow the example of the good Singapore..

Rape does not have a death penalty in Singapore and the maximum punishment is 20 years. So there are cases where the convicted scumbags enjoy the hospitality of Changi Prison on taxpayers money.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/man-who-raped-13-year-old-fails-in-appeal-for-lighter-sentence

And a low level drug mule is made an example of while the high level traffickers are probably looking for the next guy who will be desperate enough to hide drugs in his vehicle and cross over from Woodlands checkpoint into SG.

Dear US, do you want to end your drug problem??.. Follow the example of the good Singapore..

TokyoLiving - Most States in the US are actually going in the opposite direction with regard to drugs, reducing the penalties instead. As you may have heard, we have the largest incarcerated population in the world by far.

A lesson again to all drug traffickers. In my opinion, this man deserved the sentence. Disabled or not. He did it.

Dear US, do you want to end your drug problem??.. Follow the example of the good Singapore..

Well, the problem with that is if you follow the Singaporean example you'll be exchanging your "drug trafficking "problem for a "everyone being scared of being executed if they get caught anywhere near drugs" problem.

I am not a drug dealer or user and would never touch the stuff. I also have to travel to Singapore sometimes for work (or at least I did before the pandemic) and everytime I enter the country the flight attendants helpfully remind us to look at the warning in big red letters "Drug smugglers will be executed" on the immigration forms they just handed out. This always freaks me out and makes me not want to go to Singapore because its the only country I travel to that greats you with an explicit threat to kill you as you enter.

This also makes me worry since anyone on that plane who has drugs on them has a clear incentive to plant them on an innocent traveller like myself to avoid being executed, so it makes me keep an extra close watch on my belongings as I go through customs because I don't want to be killed. Not that any of that is likely, but the fact that its something they draw my attention to just makes me not want to have anything to do with the place.

he had an IQ of 69 and was intellectually disabled

Just curious, how he obtained heroine in first place?

Anyone believing they have the right to take a human life is wrong. Expel them for life from Singapore.

Death penalty for drugs is a pathetic excuse for a power trip to take a life.

Singapore, like every place with the death penalty, is abhorrent and barbaric.

Good on Singapore! Their country, their laws. Respect them or suffer the consequences.

well done Singapore,no sympathy with drug trafficker at all.

Barbarians! USA, Japan and especially Singapore (for using it even for relatively minor crimes such as this) are a disgrace to the civilized world for continuing with using the death penalty - a punishment that belongs in the dark ages.

Executing someone makes no difference to the importers… so it’s not really a deterrent. The mules are desperate for money killing them has obviously made no difference in the trade. But this is a new low killing after 10 years of imprisonment a mentally challenged person who probably had little knowledge of what was happening. That’s low and shows the fiefdom of Singapore to be far from enlighten but only one step away from witchcraft charges being law.

Drugs like heroin kill people also.

Singapore is protecting its citizens and residents by having strict laws.

This is a really sad news story, so unnecessary to do this, a prion sentence is max! shame on Singapore. Stop the executions!

Zichi

Just because your opinion is that execution of anyone is wrong doesn't make it wrong.

Given a different situation you may think differently of execution.

Was the execution of war criminals or mass murdering psychopathic serial killer's unfair ?

Assisted suicide is a self execution.

Heroin by itself doesn’t kill. It’s the life style needed to get it that does. It’s a myth that heroin kills, its crap. People can live normal lives using it. Not a recommended life choice but it’s the circles you need to contact with that will kill you first.

I don't support the death penalty. but that is the law in Singapore and in Indoneasian countries. Drug trafficers are fully aware of the risk they take smuggling drugs in these countries. He got caught and was executed for it. That's the gamble he took and lost.

I guess that if the objective of the government of Singapore is to show they can completely ignore human rights, then they can as well do it all the way down to ridiculous levels.

It used to be that China was the sick man of Asia, the title belongs to Singapore now. Utterly revolting, heartless and unjust. Singabore - bada bad.

I like Singapore's stance. You know the penalty so don't do the crime. The U.S. could use a bit of real deterrence like this.

First: Is the disability cause by his drug addiction? 10 years of heavy use will pickle his brain, Seen the same with alcoholics. Second: That amount 43 grams would last a heavy user 2 months minimum. So He was planning to sell it which would fetch a good price in Singapore. Courts have taken this into consideration and decided to him the rope of death. Poor bloke. I have a beer and a pray for you son.

Disgusting. The death penalty is barbaric.

Was the execution of war criminals or mass murdering psychopathic serial killer's unfair ?

I’m not zichi, but: yes. If you believe killing people is wrong, then killing someone you don’t like is also wrong.

Assisted suicide is a self execution.

This is the most smooth-brain take I’ve seen on this website, and that’s saying something.

As for this particular case in Singapore, I suspect that the media's accounts of the whole thing -- including the article above -- are slanted toward the anti-capital punishment side and are (shall we say) "forgetting" to add certain pieces of information to their reporting. That's quite a common pattern for them.

“You keep saying that the death penalty is bad, but what if there were imaginary things that I can’t describe that justified it, hm? Now don’t you feel silly for opposing the terrible crimes that I made up in my head.” - a rational person who understands the law.

Are you familiar with the word “irony”? And is it your contention that all claims of intellectual disability must be dismissed, because some of them might be false? In all the reporting on this case, I have never seen anyone assert that this man was NOT intellectually disabled. Not even the prosecution. Not even the judge. Just you, and the other hardliners on this thread.

Right wingers like it when the disabled are killed. Because they’re eugenicists.

Singapore on Wednesday executed a mentally disabled Malaysian man condemned for a drug offense after a court dismissed a last-minute challenge from his mother and international pleas to spare him.

Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, 34, had been on death row for over a decade after he was convicted of trafficking about 43 grams (1.5 oz) of heroin into Singapore. The city-state's government has said its use of the death penalty for drug crimes is made clear at the borders.

Is this not a breach of the very basic ethos of human rights law, if deemed to be mentally disabled, to execute this person is a crime.

With the Damocles Sword of democracy we need to cull all governments of the homicidal psychopaths who place no value on human life other than that of their own families. They do not know the meaning of mercy until they themselves have to face execution for their acts of inhumanity.

Of course he wasn’t one with IQ69 and therefore was fully responsible. In such an extremely seldom case of real low IQ69, which is below a multiple standard deviation of the according Gaussian curve, he wouldn’t even have packed and kept his luggage, put himself illegal drugs into it , found the way to any taxi or airport or even flight to another country. Such rare few people are all locally fixed and can’t even help themselves drinking, eating or going to a bathroom without a bigger disaster leaving, or putting on clothes and binding their shoes for leaving. Anyway, it would have been better if they in addition also killed the big ones from the cartels who are behind of that and still out there unharmed at all.

Singapore is a totalitarian nation where one can get caned for stepping on the grass. It's a dystopia. What would you expect from a cold unhuman place like this? And they swear allegiance to their 'Great Leader'/Little Tin God with a personality cult who first built that city-state in the first place. It's just plain SAD.

Singapore is a totalitarian nation where one can get caned for stepping on the grass. 

Singapore is what the CCP aspires to for China, a shiny modern looking country that puts on a smiley face to the world but deep inside is a paternalistic authoritarian hell-hole that tolerates no political opposition or disobedience of any kind. It bothers me greatly that western democracies by and large have good relations with Singapore and provide it with arms. Singapore should be shunned.

Rape is heinous but it affects one person directly (unless it's a series rapist) but heroine out in the streets affects thousands of people and a small minority is makes a fortune off the back of misery and death

Rape is a crime of force where the victims (in most cases) are scarred for life.

No one forces a heroin junkie to start shooting.

TokyoLiving - Most States in the US are actually going in the opposite direction with regard to drugs, reducing the penalties instead

And this approach has caused a literal explosion in addiction and crime, not to mention booming homelessness. Those countless thousands of homeless camps from San Diego to Seattle are populated mostly by addicts.

Japan’s drug laws are harsh, and its criminal justice system is unfair. And because these are so, there is little crime, and there are few people incarcerated in the prison system.

Execution of anyone is simply wrong.

I disagree, but only for multiple murders or heinous torture and murder of a single person. And for stealing over $10M.

I don't now how much 43g of heroine is, but 43g of of cocaine is definitely for distribution ... er ... so I would assume.

Sangetsu - the War on Drugs is probably one of the costliest errors my country has made and we will still feel the effects of it years from now even if everything were decriminalized everything tomorrow.

The causes of homelessness and crime in my country are many, and the issue of solving them is complex. Getting addicts out of the shadows and into support and treatment for rehabilitation should be the goal, not sending more people into the revolving door of our often for-profit prison system.

We made alcohol illegal a number of years back and all it did were create criminals out of our citizenry. The crime that is associated with the drug trade is precisely because of the illegality of it. While there is still crime associated with alcohol, it is a lot less than there would be if it were made illegal again.

The city-state's government has said its use of the death penalty for drug crimes is made clear at the borders.

It certainly is. So this is a justified execution.

Nagaenthran’s supporters and lawyers said he had an IQ of 69 and was intellectually disabled, and that the execution of a mentally ill person was prohibited under international human rights law.

Apparently criminal laws of Singapore supersede international human rights law.

Moral of the story--do not smuggle drugs into Singapore.

Barbaric disgusting place, Never go anywhere near this dump, or Malaysia, the home of the world's most vicious and sadistic capital and corporal punishments - these places must be totally boycotted until they can prove that they're fit to rejoin a civilised world, where the most basic and humane treatment of every citizen is respected, rich or poor.

The evil leaders of these States must realise that times have changed, and if they can't live with this, then big changes WILL take place to provide a more peaceful, normal and congenial environment for everyone.