Capital punishment is a legal form of punishment in Singapore. The state has the highest per-capita execution rate, estimated by the United Nations to be 13.57 executions per one million population between 1994 to 1999. The next highest was Saudi Arabia with 4.65. All executions are carried out by hanging at Changi Prison at Fridays' dawn. All capital trials take place in public, before one High Court judge, and each person sentenced to death is automatically entitled to one appeal to the Court of Appeal. The transcripts ...

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Under Section 216 of the Singapore Criminal Code: "When any person is sentenced to death, the sentence shall direct that he shall be hanged by the neck till he is dead but shall not state the place where nor the time when the sentence is to be carried out." Hangings always take place at dawn on Friday and are by the long drop method developed in the United Kingdom by William Marwood. The executioner refers to the Official Table of Drops. The government have said that they: "…had previously studied the different methods of execution and found no reason to ch ...

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Capital punishment is a legal form of punishment in Singapore. The state has the highest per-capita execution rate, estimated by the United Nations to be 13.57 executions per one million population between 1994 to 1999. The next highest was Saudi Arabia with 4.65. All executions are carried out by hanging at Changi Prison at Fridays' dawn. All capital trials take place in public, before one High Court judge, and each person sentenced to death is automatically entitled to one appeal to the Court of Appeal. The transcripts ...

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Public debate in the Singaporean news media on the death penalty is almost non-existent, although the topic does occasionally get discussed in the midst of major, well-known criminal cases. Efforts to garner public opinion on the issue are rare, although it is generally assumed that most Singaporeans support it and believe it plays a part in keeping the crime rate in Singapore low. Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, the first ever opposition Member of Parliament in Singapore, was only given a few minutes to speak in parliament on the issue b ...

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Hanging is a form of execution or a method for suicide. As form of capital punishment hanging has been used throughout history. There are four methods of hanging: the long drop the short drop the standard drop suspension hanging A long-drop hanging may break the neck (cervical fracture) causing traumatic spinal cord injury ...

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Hanging is commonly the method of executing penalties of death in Commonwealth countries that still have it, e.g., Malaysia and Singapore. A recent case of capital punishment by hanging is that of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, who was convicted of the 1990 murder and rape of a 14 year old girl in Kolkata(Calcutta) in India. Although the Supreme Court of India has suggested that capital punishment be given in the rarest of rare cases, Chatterjee was executed on August 14, 2004 in the first ...

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Van Tuong Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Tường Vân, baptised Caleb[1]) (17 August 1980 – 2 December 2005) was a Thailand–born Vietnamese Australian from Melbourne, Victoria, convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore. He is also addressed as Nguyen Tuong Van in the Singapore media. Such offences carry a mandatory death sentence under Singapore's Misuse of Drugs Act, and despite pleas for clemency from the Australian government, Amnesty International as well as other individuals and groups, he was exec ...

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For most of the 19th century the criminal law which was applied in the Three Straits Settlement of Singapore, Penang and Malacca was that of England, in so far as local circumstances were permitted. There was little doubt that English common law crimes were recognised in these territories at the time. Certain problems, such as the application of certain Indian Acts, however, arose in 1871 and the Straits Settlements Penal Code was passed. It came into operation on 16 September 1872. The Code is practica ...

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Law of Singapore - Press. Pornography is not allowed;, e.g. Playboy and certain other 'adult/porno' magazines are not allowed, however other magazines containing "mature content" like Cosmopolitan Magazine are free to be distributed at all stores with a "Parental Warning/not suitable for the young" logo on its covers. Foreign newspapers and magazines may have their sales or circulation restricted. These include the Asian Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Revie ...

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Nguyen and his twin brother Dang Khoa were born in a refugee camp at Sonkha in Thailand. He did not know his father until 2001 when he travelled from the United States to Australia. His mother, Kim, is Vietnamese and migrated to Australia shortly after the boys' birth. She married a Vietnamese Australian in 1987, who Nguyen said beat them often. His education was at St. Joseph Primary School in Springvale, Melbo ...

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In recent years, the Singaporean government has relaxed some of the stricter laws. For example, bungee jumping is no longer illegal. Film censorship has also been strongly relaxed. There are also several signs that the government is considering relaxing a number of laws concerning sex. It is of note that while some archaic laws do remain from British common law, the judiciary usually does not deliberately enforce these laws. For instance, while possession of pornography is illegal, no known checks have been made. However, in 2004, Chi ...

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Sex deemed by the Government to be "against the order of nature", including anal sex and oral sex (except as a precursor to conventional intercourse), is criminalised by section 377 of the Singapore Penal Code, though the latter has only infrequently been enforced. Prostitution is tolerated in designated red-light districts. Homosexuality in Singapore is not illegal, but homosexual acts are considered "against the order of nature" as well. This issue is being actively addressed, however, by the Singapore gay equality movement. The Sin ...

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Nguyen's body was released to his family and left Changi Prison about 4 hours after he was hanged. From the prison, Nguyen's body was taken to the Marymount Chapel of the Good Shepherd's Convent in Singapore for a private memorial service at 1 pm. Staff from the Australian High Commission requested on behalf of the family for the media to stay away from the chapel. His family returned to Australia with his body at 5.30 am December 4, 2005, after ...

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Throughout his trial, Nguyen claimed that he was carrying the drugs in a bid to pay off debts that he owed and to repay legal fees his twin brother Khoa (a former heroin addict), had incurred in defending drug-trafficking and other criminal charges.[3] The loan Nguyen owed came from an Chinese Australian friend, which amounted to approximately AU$20,000 to AU$25,000. In addition to his own finanical troubles, Nguyen tried to help pay his twin brother ...

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Nguyen confessed to have in his possession 396.2 grams of heroin, more than 25 times the amount that mandates a death sentence under the Misuse of Drugs Act (15 grams). The Singaporean High Court sentenced Nguyen to death for this crime on 20 March 2004. After he was convicted, Nguyen was held on death row in Changi Prison. An appeal to the Court of Appeal was rejected on 20 October 2004. On 17 November 2005, Nguyen's family received a registered letter from the Singapore Prisons Department. It contained notice o ...

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Van Tuong Nguyen - Government of Australia. A plea for clemency by the Australian Government was rejected in October 2005. The Australian federal government abolished the death penalty in 1973, with the last execution in 1967. Australians, including members of Federal and state parliaments, appealed for the decision to be reconsidered and clemency to be granted. His hanging was the first execution of an Australian in Southeast Asia since 1993, when Michael ...

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While in prison, Nguyen wrote several letters in which he revealed his deep pain of missing his mother after his arrest. According to a report by The Age, Nguyen wrote: "Amidst these score of painful revelations an unspoken truth was exposed. I found myself in deep sorrow for the true victims; the families of those whom suffer as a result of losing a loved one to drugs. This truth has put many things in perspective for me."[10] The letters, intended for friends and family to read after his death, filled more than one ...

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A group of human rights activists held a vigil for Nguyen in Singapore on November 7, 2005. Among those present was opposition politician Chee Soon Juan, leader of the Singapore Democratic Party. An opponent of the mandatory death penalty, Chee argues that the legislation is too harsh on drug couriers, with little effects on drug bosses. In Australia, vigils were held in several cities in the week leading up to the execution. The Catholic Parish of St Ignatius, in the Melbourne suburb Richmond; the church's primary school was i ...

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Australian Prime Minister John Howard used the execution of Nguyen as a warning to young people to stay away from drugs. He told Melbourne radio station 3AW: "I don't believe in capital punishment, he was a convicted drug trafficker and that is to be wholly condemned, [but] I hope the strongest message that comes out of this, above everything else, is a message to the young of Australia. Don't have anything to do with drugs. Don't use them, don't touch them, don't carry them, don't traffic in them and don't imagine for a moment — for a moment — that you can risk carrying drugs ...

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