Singapore is to hang a Malaysian man this week as activists press for a halt to the death penalty


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SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR (AP): A Malaysian man on death row for trafficking heroin is to be executed this week in Singapore, anti-death penalty activists said Monday, renewing calls for a halt to capital punishment in the city-state.

If the execution goes through, Datchinamurthy Kataiah, 39, will become the third Malaysian national and the eleventh person to be hanged this year in Singapore.

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