SINGAPORE: Singapore will gauge public attitudes towards the death penalty in a survey, the interior ministry said, as human rights groups renewed calls for its abolition.
The city-state – which staunchly maintains that capital punishment is a crime deterrent – executed eight convicts last year, the highest number in a decade, according to official data. They had all committed drug offences.
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