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Singapore Executes 3 People Within a Week
The executions raise the 2025 total to 17, the highest since 2003, occurring days before a constitutional challenge to Singapore’s mandatory drug trafficking death penalty.
- Last week, Singapore hanged three people for drug offences, including logistics driver Saminathan Selvaraju, a week before a constitutional challenge is due to be heard.
- Under Singapore law, trafficking over thresholds such as more than 15g of diamorphine triggers Singapore's mandatory death-penalty regime, with possession above those limits legally presumed as trafficking.
- The case followed rejected appeals and a clemency plea, as Saminathan Selvaraju was convicted for transporting 301.6g of diamorphine and his clemency plea to the president was rejected in September.
- International and local critics reacted, with the European Union delegation to Singapore saying a `significant increase in the use of capital punishment' and the Transformative Justice Collective calling Singapore's regime `barbaric', while the Singapore government defended the death penalty as a deterrent against serious societal harms.
- Against international norms, lawyers and rights groups point to seven activists arguing the mandatory death penalty violates constitutional rights, while critics say it disproportionately targets low-level smugglers and couriers and conflicts with International Criminal Court / Rome Statute context.
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Australia Should Urge Singapore to Halt Execution
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should urge Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong to halt an execution scheduled on the day of their meeting in Canberra on October 8 for the Australia-Singapore Annual Leaders’ Meeting.
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