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Deaths in Singapore offset the population increase from live births. In 2007, 17,140 people in Singapore died from various causes. The death rate was 4.5 deaths per 1,000 of the population. [ 1 ]
Changi Prison, where Singapore's death row is located Capital punishment in Singapore is a legal penalty. Executions in Singapore are carried out by long drop hanging, and usually take place at dawn. Thirty-three offences—including murder, drug trafficking, terrorism, use of firearms and kidnapping —warrant the death penalty under Singaporean law. In 2012, Singapore amended its laws to ...
The United Nations also criticised Singapore for executing Nagaenthran and Abdul Kahar Othman and stated that Singapore should impose a moratorium as a first step to abolish the death penalty, and urged Singapore to not execute Datchinamurthy Kataiah, who was the third drug trafficker facing imminent execution in Singapore.
Singapore maintains an active conscription system in accordance with the regulations set by the Government of Singapore, known as National Service (NS). [1] This requires all qualified male Singaporean citizens and second-generation permanent residents to serve a period of active duty military service in the uniformed services, in either the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), Singapore Civil ...
On 31 March 2012, Elsie Lie Lek Chee, a 24-year-old administrative officer was found brutally killed inside her rented flat in Jurong West.. On that day itself, the police responded to a report that led them to the Jurong West flat, where they found the mutilated body of a young woman, together with a man, the woman's boyfriend, who was arrested at the scene.
A judge in Singapore has sentenced a man to death via a Zoom video-call for his role in a drug deal, one of just two known cases where a capital punishment verdict has been delivered remotely.
The 512th to 523rd fatalities here were aged between 58 and 95. All of them, except for an unvaccinated case, had various underlying medical conditions.
The Singapore Prison Service confirmed that Ahmed was the first person to be executed in Singapore during the year 2024, and the Singapore Police Force, in a media statement that confirmed the news of Ahmed's hanging, stated that Ahmed had been accorded full due process and had been represented by counsel throughout the legal process, and added ...