A DRUG trafficker at the centre of a high-profile campaign to end the death penalty here was executed yesterday despite the appeals of his teenage twin sons and his lawyer's pleas that it was a denial of “natural justice.”
Shanmugam Murugesu, 38, who was convicted of trying to import 1,029.8gm of cannabis through a checkpoint from Malaysia, was hanged at 6am, his lawyer, M. Ravi said.
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