SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore will stick to hanging as its method of execution, the government said on Monday, less than two weeks before the planned hanging of an Australian drug smuggler.
Lawyers for Nguyen Tuong Van -- who is due to be hanged on Dec. 2 following his conviction for drug smuggling -- earlier on Monday asked the Australian government to take the case to the United Nations International Court of Justice in a last-ditch bid to stop the execution. "We had previously studied the different methods of execution and found no reason to change from the current method used, i.e., by hanging," Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng said in reply to a question in parliament.
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