KUALA LUMPUR – Singapore will proceed with the execution of disabled Malaysian Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam on April 27, a month after the city state’s top court rejected a last ditch appeal against his sentence, human rights lawyer M. Ravi said today.
Last month, Singapore’s appeals court dismissed Nagaenthran’s appeal against his death sentence for trafficking a small amount of heroin, ruling that it had “no factual and legal basis”.
Ravi, who was assisting Nagaenthran’s family in his appeal, said Singapore would never recover from the shame of hanging an intellectually disabled individual.
“Even the government psychiatrist at the trial admitted that Nagenthren suffered from an abnormality of mind,” Ravi said in a post on professional networking site LinkedIn.
“I will say that all Singaporeans will have blood in their hands next Wednesday as the execution is done in their name.”
Nagaenthran was arrested in 2009 and found guilty a year later for trafficking in 42.72g of heroin.
During his trial, it was established that Nagaenthran had an IQ of 69 but the judge ruled that he was on the borderline of having a functional intellect.
The court also came to the conclusion that Nagaenthran was aware that what he was doing was a crime. – The Vibes, April 20, 2022
