SINGAPORE: Singapore hanged a Malaysian convicted of drug trafficking, the latest in what rights groups said was a series of executions prompting them to renew calls for the wealthy city-state to abolish the death penalty.
Singapore has some of the world’s toughest anti-drugs laws, and airport customs forms warn arriving travellers of “death for drug traffickers” in no uncertain terms.
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