Just 3 weeks after 46-year-old Singaporean Thangaraju Suppiah was hanged for the crime of conspiracy to traffick marijuana, anti-death penalty activists in Singapore have confirmed that the government is set to execute another man tomorrow, May 17, for the same crime.
In a post shared by the Transformative Justice Collective (TJC) last night, the activist group said that the family of a 37-year-old Malay Singaporean man had received an execution notice last Wednesday.
The family has asked for privacy so no personal details like his name or photo were revealed in the post.
According to the TJC, the man has been in prison for seven years after being convicted of trafficking 1.5kg of cannabis.
Trafficking 500g of cannabis or more carries the mandatory death penalty under Singapore's harsh drug laws.
However, TJC said that an application to reopen his case has been filed on the basis that DNA and fingerprint evidence only tied him to possession of a much smaller amount of cannabis.
Billionaire and outspoken death penalty abolitionist Richard Branson last month wrote about the many issues surrounding Thangaraju's "shocking" case, arguing that 'In the coming days, Singapore may kill an innocent man". The Ministry of Home Affairs replied by defending the execution and calling Branson "disrespectful". Singapore continues to vehemently defend its death penalty regime even as other countries in the region move away from the use of capital punishment.
If the man's appeal is unsuccessful, the state will proceed with the execution at dawn tomorrow.
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Don't do the crime if you can't do the time
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This is unbased.
Caning that American punk who got caught tagging on Orchard Road was fine, but I'm not a fan of punishments that you can't (metaphorically) walk away from.
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Again
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#Fax
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Just traffic 400g at a time. Simple as.
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I know being pro-cannabis is reddit tier but these kinds of laws certainly are low IQ.
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Just don’t traffic weed into the country, it’s not that hard
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500g. Thats enough for a small ladyboy to be high a decade.
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Drug traffickers get the rope simple.
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Yeah but not everybody has taken enough drugs yet. Who's gonna sort them out?
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Who is even buying it?
Like, with a lot of drugs there's plausible deniability that it's not hurting anybody.
How chill is it to smoke weed when you can be pretty certain the guy who smuggled it in is being forced to?
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Weedcels are low iq
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I agree with you, but I'm glad that they caned that brat from the States who sprayed graffiti on Orchard Road.
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It’s a pretty r-slurred law, on the other hand, you also have to be giga r-slurred if you traffic weed into a country that will give you the death penalty for just over a pound of dirt weed lmao.
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You have to be ruthless with this behavior because it allows nobodies to make insane money for doing nothing
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Noooooo you can’t enforce your own laws and customs
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This but unironically.
We must save them from their own backwards and inferior lifestyles.
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I don't know what to say...
Guess I'll random marsey
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Chinese invasion would be ideal, good marsey
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Excuse me? The hwacha is Chinese?
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Mongols had to steal the idea from somewhere, first
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Probably this one is close to fitting
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White people are truly the leaders at killing civilization.
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You're not funny, you're not clever, and no matter how much or how often you tell yourself otherwise, making other people angry has absolutely no value whatsoever. Even the enjoyment is fleeting; you know that. The rush you get never lasts. You spend your days being shocking for the sake of it, rolling in deeper and more wretched sewage like it's a race to the bottom of every ladder in the universe, and for what? You're not special. You're not in an exclusive club of the clued-in and the free-thinking. You are wearing a thin mask consisting of edgy memes, shock value and faux nihilism that you've convinced yourself is good enough to call a personality, that you think will cover up the nothing behind it. You're wrong.
Step back, reflect, admit your faults and grow up.
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of conspiracy to traffick marijuana:
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execution notice:
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Billionaire and outspoken death penalty abolitionist Richard Branson last month wrote about:
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"disrespectful":
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continues to vehemently defend its death penalty regime even as other countries in the region move away from the use of capital punishment:
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The only way to deal with drug sniffers, tbh
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