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Changi Prison, where Singapore's death row is located Capital punishment in Singapore is a legal penalty. Executions in Singapore are carried out by long drop hanging, and usually take place at dawn. Thirty-three offences—including murder, drug trafficking, terrorism, use of firearms and kidnapping —warrant the death penalty under Singapore law. In 2012, Singapore amended its laws to ...
Flor Contemplacion was born in San Pablo City in the Laguna province of Luzon, and was married with four children at the time of her death. In 1988, she travelled to Singapore in search of work to support her young family, eventually finding employment as a domestic servant in the Cardiff Road area of Serangoon.
Victims. 3–6 (3 confirmed; 3 unconfirmed) John Martin Scripps (9 December 1959 – 19 April 1996), also known as the Garden City Butcher, [1] was an English serial killer who murdered three tourists—Gerard Lowe in Singapore, and Sheila and Darin Damude in Thailand —with another three unconfirmed victims. He posed as a tourist himself when ...
Death penalty [ 1] Elke Tsang Kai-mong (張凱夢/张凯梦 or 張凱孟/张凯孟) was a 30 year old female Hongkonger who was executed in Singapore after being charged and found guilty with smuggling over 4 kg of diamorphine (or pure heroin) into the country. Tsang, the daughter of a high-ranking Hong Kong police officer, was caught on 26 ...
Aerial photo of Changi prison in Singapore taken in 1952 (looking east). The oval shaped building in the bottom right corner was the death row section of the prison. When it was officially operational in June 1937, it was claimed to be one of the best prisons in the British Empire. The design of the prison was based on a T-shaped structure ...
Execution. Poon Yuen Chung was hanged at Changi Prison on the morning of 21 April 1995. As per her wishes, Poon's kidneys and corneas were donated to the Human Organ Transplant Board of Hong Kong after her death. [ 29] On the same morning, another two Hong Kongers, Lam Cheuk Wang and Tong Ching Man, as well as two other drug convicts (Nigerian ...
Execution of Tangaraju Suppiah. Tangaraju s/o Suppiah (19 January 1977 – 26 April 2023) was a Singaporean convicted drug trafficker who was charged in February 2014 with abetting the trafficking of about 1 kg (2.2 lb) of cannabis (also known as marijuana). Prior to his arrest in 2014, Tangaraju had been to prison several times for marijuana ...
Gobi a/l Avedian (born 7 April 1988) is a Malaysian drug convict who is currently serving a 15-year term of imprisonment in Singapore for attempted importation of a Class C drug. Gobi was at first, charged in 2014 with the capital charge of trafficking over 40.22g of heroin, which attracts the death penalty in Singapore.