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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 ...
Eventually, 18 men, including Tan Kheng Ann, were convicted of murder and hanged in Changi Prison on 29 October 1965. Another 29 men were found guilty of rioting – among them, 11 were sentenced to two years' jail for rioting while the other 18 received three years' jail for rioting with deadly weapons. The remaining 11 men were acquitted and ...
[27] [28] [29] Shortly after the hangings, police spokesperson confirmed to the media that the five men had been put to death for the three murders they were convicted for, and cited that the five were part of a gang robbery group who had committed various other robberies at construction sites all over Singapore. [30] [31] The five men's ...
As part of investigations, the police seized a total of nine rifles and one pistol from licensed gun owners in the vicinity of Queenstown, and test-fired them. However, they found that the .22 calibre bullet that killed Chan was not fired from any of them. A total of six witnesses who heard the gunshot contacted the police.
19 November 1992: After a failed hold-up at Tin Seng Goldsmith, 26-year-old Ng Theng Shuang and 27-year-old Lee Kok Chin, both Malaysians armed with guns and grenades, engaged in a shootout with 22-year-old Cisco officer Karamjit Singh and Singh was injured on the thigh as a result of Ng shooting him but he survived. Two other people - 57-year ...
In July 2015, Singapore's national daily newspaper The Straits Times published a e-book titled Guilty As Charged: 25 Crimes That Have Shaken Singapore Since 1965, which included the Andrew Road triple murder case as one of the top 25 crimes that had shocked the nation since its independence in 1965. The book was a collaboration between the ...
This category contain the pages where the accused had been suspected or charged with murder in Singapore, regardless of whether they were convicted of murder or other charges (including manslaughter) in the end, as well as the people who were unlawfully killed in Singapore.
2 December 2024: The case of a 30-year-old woman found dead in a flat along Dover Road was classified as murder by the Singapore police. A 34-year-old man, suspected of being involved in the murder, left Singapore prior to the police receiving a call for assistance. The suspect and the victim were known to each other.