Human rights groups, international activists and the United Nations have urged Singapore to halt executions for drug offences and say there is increasing evidence it is ineffective as a deterrent.
Rights groups say Singapore has executed 15 people for drug offences since it resumed hangings in 2022Members of Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network hold a candle outside Singapore's Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on April 26 to protest an execution for a man accused of co-ordinating a cannabis delivery. Two people were executed in Singapore this week for drug offences.
Djamani's execution came two days after that of a Singaporean man, Mohammed Aziz Hussain, 56, for trafficking around 50 grams of heroin. "Singapore's inhumanity toward persons ensnared in their draconian drug law really knows no bounds," Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Friday.Singapore authorities insist capital punishment is important to halting drug demand and supply.
Anti-death penalty activists said the last woman known to have been hanged in Singapore was 36-year-old hairdresser Yen May Woen, also for drug trafficking, in 2004.
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