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An immigration card issued by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority reminding travellers to Singapore that the death penalty is imposed for drug trafficking. The appellant, Yong Vui Kong, was a 19-year-old Malaysian national who was arrested in Singapore on 13 June 2007 and charged with trafficking in 47.27 grams (1.667 oz) of diamorphine (), a Class A controlled drug under the Misuse of ...
Law in Singapore, by the C.J. Koh Law Library, National University of Singapore; LawNet; Singaporelaw.sg, by the Singapore Academy of Law; Singapore Law Watch, by the Singapore Academy of Law; Singapore Laws on the Internet from WWLegal.com – contains a list of Singapore legal resources on the Internet (published 15 January 2005)
This is a list of Singapore-related articles by alphabetical order. To learn quickly what Singapore is, see Outline of Singapore . Those interested in the subject can monitor changes to the pages by clicking on Related changes in the sidebar.
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 ...
Judicial Reform in Singapore: Reducing Backlogs and Court Delays. Washington, D.C.: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank: 127– 133. ISBN 978-0-8213-3206-1. Ross Worthington (2001). "Between Hermes and Themis: An Empirical Study of the Contemporary Judiciary in Singapore". Journal of Law and Society. 28 (4): 490.
6 May 1977: 18-year-old Siti Aminah binte Jaffar and 25-year-old Anwar Ali Khan were caught trafficking 43.5 grams of diamorphine, which exceeds the 15 grams that would lead to a death sentence under Singapore law.
Singapore has executed a prisoner for trafficking 54 grams of heroin in what is the third death sentence meted out in just eight days – marking a worrying increase of its capital punishment ...
Although Pang was not a certified drug mule, her death sentence was also commuted to life imprisonment due to depression at the time of her crime. [173] 28 June: At the Paya Lebar home of opposition politician Tan Lead Shake, his 25-year-old wife Wu Yun Yun stabbed her brother-in-law Tan Lead Sane to death. Tan's 35-year-old wife, Huang Mei Zhe ...