Singapore Defends Drug Crime Execution Amid Outcry Over Man’s IQ
- Government says there’s misinformation about his mental state
- Malaysian man’s lawyers say he was intellectually disabled
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Singapore’s government has defended a decision to execute a Malaysian man convicted for drug trafficking after the penalty attracted international criticism due to concerns about his mental capacity.
Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam was hanged Wednesday after being found guilty more than a decade ago for trafficking at least 43 grams of heroin into Singapore in 2009. Multiple appeals over the sentence had been dismissed in the city-state’s courts.