Singapore to resume executions after 6-month break

A Singaporean man is scheduled to be hanged next week for abetting an attempt to smuggle cannabis into the island-state, in a resumption of executions after a half-year pause, activists said Thursday.
Aanti-death penalty activist Kokila Annamalai said, the family of Tangaraju Suppiah was notified in a letter that he would be executed next Wednesday.
According to another activist, Kirsten Han, Tangaraju was detained in 2014 for drug consumption and failure to report for a drug test. He was later linked to two drug traffickers through a phone number used to coordinate the delivery of cannabis. Han said, he High Court found Tangaraju guilty of conspiring to traffic 1 kilogram of cannabis and sentenced him to mandatory death in 2018.
Singapore, which has harsh drug laws, executed 11 people last year for drug offenses. The hanging of one particular Malaysian sparked an international outcry because he was believed to be mentally disabled.