Singapore man to hang despite plea by sons: group
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SINGAPORE, May 10 (Reuters) - Singapore will hang an ethnic Tamil
man on Friday for trafficking about 1 kg (2.2 lb) of cannabis
despite a rare public plea by his teeange sons to stop the
execution, a human rights group said.
After 38-year-old Shanmugam Murugesu lost an appeal to escape the
gallows in January, his 14-year-old twin children took to
Singapore's streets, handing out flyers last month urging public
support to stop the execution, saying it would make them
orphans.
Think Centre, a Singapore human rights group, said Murugesu's
family had received notification on Monday he will be hanged on
Friday, May 13.
"We are calling everyone, wherever they are, to hold a silent vigil
for Shanmugam," Think Centre president Sinapan Samydorai told
Reuters on Tuesday.
Murugesu, a Singapore citizen, was convicted of trafficking after
his arrest at Singapore's border with Malaysia in August 2003.
Singapore President S.R. Nathan said last month Murugesu would not
receive clemency.
Prison officials said they could not immediately comment.
Singapore enforces some of the world's toughest drug laws. Anyone
aged 18 or over convicted of carrying more than 500 grammes (17.6
ounces) of cannabis faces execution by hanging.
In a 2004 report, human rights group Amnesty International said
about 400 people have been hanged in Singapore since 1991, mostly
for drug trafficking, giving the wealthy city-state of 4.2 million
people possibly the highest execution rate in the world relative to
its population.
Amnesty says only 6 people sentenced to death in Singapore have
been spared executionsince independence in 1965.
Singaporestaunchly defends its use of capital punishment. The
government claims death penalty has broad public support and has
deterred major drug syndicates from establishing themselves in
Singapore.
Human right group.
Shut up and get lost. If everyone do crime can be let go. Like
there where got justice ? Inside prison enjoy life. Free meals,
free wake-up call in the morning. Still not good enough ? Outside
people starving to death eating plain rice with soya sause. Never
see you human right group come out with any money ?
Maybe if you give free meals everyday to poor Singaporean. Many
people will support you. Don't give meals to all the foreign
workers hor ! Come here work, buy your own food ! I Know a lot of
temples, a lot of chinese workers, Indian workers who have no sense
of shame. Everyday go there and eat ! Save a lot of money and bring
home to become KING leh ! Find three wife and rape all the poor
family daughter virgin ! Human rights group should go there and
talk mah. Nothing to do huh ?
If everyone come out and cry for mercy. Then let go, no need to
died. Like that I also want to murder people loh. First one is the
human right group people. Cut them up one by one ! Then second take
1 tons of drug and sell ! Become billionare in one day ! After that
can take 10 wife and 1000 mistress as my sex slave everyday.
