Tangaraju Suppiah's death sentence put the spotlight back on Singapore's harsh stance toward a drug that is being decriminalized in much of the West.
in September 2013 through a phone number that he denied having access to at the time. He was sentenced to hang in 2018, under Singapore’s near-mandatory death penalty policy for trafficking more than 1.1 pounds of cannabis. He will be hanged Wednesday unless a last-minute appeal to Singapore’s president for clemency is granted.
Tangaraju’s family and rights groups allege that his rights were not adequately protected, and have called on the government to immediately halt the execution. They allege that he was interrogated without legal counsel — Singapore does not require that people under questioning be provided immediate access to a lawyer — and denied requests for a Tamil-language interpreter.
The planned execution has also been condemned by international opponents of capital punishment. Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia division, wrote in an email that Tangaraju’s treatment was “not good enough when the sentence is so totally final and irreversible,” adding that the execution was another attempt to demonstrate Singapore’s tough-on-drugs policy.
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