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Death Penalty in Singapore
25 April 2005

June 2001, Think Centre begins to raise public awareness on the death penalty issue.


Sign Petition Singapore: Calls for immediate moratorium on the death penalty

April 2005, Think Centre reaffirms call for a moratorium on death penalty and to commute all death sentences to imprisonment. Think Centre calls on the government to remove the mandatory capital punishment for simple possession of drugs. The mandatory death sentence must be removed. Singapore is believe to have the world's highest per capita execution rate,relative to its population.

Series Items
Imminent Execution, 30 May 2001, Zulfikar bin Mustaffah, Aged 32, Unemployed
Zulfikar bin Mustaffah is a Drug Addict but NOT a Drug Trafficker!
Clemency Plea to the President of Singapore
Death Penalty: Information needed on Death Sentence and Execution Statistics in Singapore this year
The Death Penalty in Southeast Asia
Drug Addicts and Death Penalty in Singapore
Death Penalty Case Gets an Airing in Parliament
Zulfikar bin Mustaffah to be Hanged this Friday
Death Penalty: The Silence is Deafening and Disturbing
Was innocent man hanged due to procedure?
COURT DISMISSES DEATH-ROW APPEAL
Death penalty: The Unconstitutional Punishment
Singapore:
Indian migrant worker facing execution
Singapore Death Penalty Shrouded In Silence
Singapore: High execution rate shrouded in secrecy
SINGAPORE: Death Penalty - Julaiha Begum (f), aged 52, faces imminent execution after her appeal for presidential clemency has been denied.
Think Centre Calls for a moratorium on Death Penalty
J.B.Jeyaretnam Calls for a Criminal Cases Review Commission
S'pore: Capital punishment soars
Death Penalty
Two More to Hang in Singapore
Death Penalty: Nguyen Tuong Van appeals
Singapore: Death Penalty should be commuted to imprisonment
Singapore struggles with image as executioner
Death Penalty: NGUYEN, Vietnamese refugee-cum-scout
India: The debate on death penalty
BHUTAN: Capital punishment abolished
JAPAN: Death Penalty and the Media
Malaysia: Is Capital Punishment Justified?
Death Penalty: Latest worldwide statistics released
Govt criticized AI's report on Death Penalty: J.B.Jeyaretnam comments
A PLEA TO SAVE THE LIFE
Death Penalty: SAVE THE LIFE OF SHANMUGAM MURUGESU
Death-row detainee Shanmugam:
2 hanged and there are 8 more
Singapore: President rejects clemency for Shanmugam
Shanmugam Murugesu will be hanged: 13 May 2005
Think Centre calls for Constitutional Court decision and Moratorium on death penalty
President unable to accede for constititional court hearing
13 May 2005: Shanmugam to be hanged at 6am
Suspected Drug Trafficker Free to Do Business
The family and children of Shanmugam Murugesu
Think Centre: Reaffirms Call for Moratorium on executions
The Death Penalty – An Irrational Debate
6th May Candlelit Vigil
Hung at Dawn: Police Ban Sam's Face
Two Indonesian Domestic Workers Escape the Death Penalty
World Day Against the Death Penalty
Singapore: Government defends mandatory death penalty
SINGAPORE: Two Africans sentenced to death
Poem: Hung at Dawn
Static Art Display: Hung at Dawn Concert
HUNG AT DAWN: Concert Against Death Penalty
Singapore finally finds a voice in death row protest
Jakarta: Protest against Death Penalty in Singapore
S'pore frees German drug offender
Singapore activists vow to keep fire burning against death penalty
Think Centre calls for a moratorium on Death Penalty
The question of the death penalty
AI reports on Singapore executions, human rights
What does PERC have to do with Death Penalty!
There Is More To The Death Penalty Debate
Singapore opposed the call for a moratorium on death-penalty
 
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Breaking News
President unable to accede to constitutional court hearing
(Think Centre)

12 May 2005 by Sinapan Samydorai
President "unable to accede" to convene the Constitutional Court on Shanmugam's case; he will be hanged on 13 May 2005. Prayer Vigil at Shanmugam's house.

Sign Petition

Singapore: Calls for immediate moratorium on the death penalty


Think Centre will continue the call for a moratorium on death penalty. Shanmugam Murugesu is challenging the death penalty to the very end. As a brave soldier he was prepared to die for his nation; now he wants the cruel practice of death penalty stopped. More then 400 state sanctioned killing is enough. Let's put a stop to the death penalty. Stop the hanging NOW.

There are 8 more persons on the death-row including Vietnamese Australian Nguyen who is waiting for the President's Clemency.

Think Centre calls on everyone, everywhere, to sign the petitition and say Yes to a Moratorium. NO to the Death Penalty. The death peanlty is a cruel, inhumane and degading punishment.


13 May 2005
Shanmugam is scheduled to be hanged today, Friday, 13 May 2005, at 6am. His body will return home at 3pm. You have a last chance to say fare will to Shanmugam at his home from 3 to 4pm or at the Mandai Crematorium from 5.30 -6.30pm
12 May 2005
Shanmugam's lawyer, M.Ravi, has filed a motion to stay the execution, which was heard at the High Court at 3pm. The judge dismissed the case at around 6pm.

Prayer Vigil at Shamugam's house at 8pm: Block 519, Jurong West Street 52, Unit: 03-157, Singapore.
11 May 2005
President S.R. Nathan informed that he is "unable to accede" to Convene a Constitutional Court to review the case. The President through the Prisons Department official informed M.Ravi, the lawyer for Shanmugam.
10 May 2005
Both Think Centre and M. Ravi, at the Tuesday's press briefing, 10 May 2005, requested the President to convene the constitutional court. They requested the court to determine whether Shanmugam's right to equal protection had been denied.
6 May 2005
A candelit Vigil was held on May 6th, 7 pm at the Furama City Centre Hotel organized by the Think Centre more then 150 people paarticipated in the vigil against death penalty.

Sources and Relevant Links:

Think Centre calls for Constitutional Court decision and Moratorium on death penalty 11 May 2005:Think Calls on our government, the members of parliament, to abandon the use of death penalty.

Think Centre Shanmugam Murugesu will be hanged: 13 May 2005 09 May 2005: The family of Shanmugam Murugesu received a letter today that he will be hanged the coming Friday 13th May 2005.

The Observer Singapore finally finds a voice in death row protest 09 May 2005:The government clearly does not want the campaign gathering momentum. The partially state-owned local media ignored the vigil and the police shut down the open mike session just as the first person was getting into his stride.

Think Centre 6th May Candlelit Vigil 26 April 2005: A candelit Vigil was held on May 6th, 7 pm at the Furama City Centre Hotel organized by the Think Centre.

Think Centre: Reaffirms Call for Moratorium on executions

The death penalty is a "cruel, inhumane and degrading punishment."

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