Singapore waging war against drugs; death penalty effective deterrent: Shanmugam
The minister took aim at activists who criticised Singapore's drug control approach. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Muhammad Faizal Mohd Shariff, 36, was one of 17 ethnic Malay death row inmates involved in a historic suit accusing the Singapore state of racial bias in its prosecution of capital punishment cases.
Most Singaporeans support death for drug traffickers, law minister Shanmugam says
A Home Affairs Ministry survey conducted last year found 69 per cent of respondents agreed that the mandatory death penalty ...
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Strong, growing support for death penalty reflected in surveys of Singapore, neighbouring countries: Shanmugam
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Wednesday (May 8) cited local and regional surveys as ...
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Shanmugam slams anti-death penalty activists for spreading misinformation, disregarding harm done to drug victims
Minister for Home Affairs and Law K Shanmugam has called out anti-death penalty activists for spreading misinformation and helping death row inmates "abuse" legal processes. During his ministerial ...
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Record number of people executed for drug offences in 2023
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Death penalty’s key role in drug war
He cited four cases in Singapore of the harms of drug abuse, including a man who stabbed his mother to death and punched his grandmother till she died, while under the influence of LSD, a ...
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Critics say that Singapore's death penalty has mostly snared ... general of being "overzealous" in his prosecution of a death row client. "The more I learn about the death penalty ...
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Singapore wages war against drugs, defends death penalty for traffickers
Singapore is waging a war against the drug trade, with Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam leading the charge. He took aim at critics of the country's use of the death penalty on drug traffickers ...
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Most Singaporeans support death for drug traffickers, law minister Shanmugam says
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Strong, growing support for death penalty reflected in surveys of Singapore, neighbouring countries: Shanmugam
SINGAPORE — Singapore's Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Wednesday (May 8) cited local and regional surveys as proof of strong and growing support for using the death penalty on drug ...