2023-07-28 14:47:00
After two decades without carrying out the death sentence against a woman, the Singaporean authorities confirmed that Saridewi Djamani, 45, was hanged after receiving “due process of law”. She is the second person to be executed for drug trafficking in a week and the 15th since March 2022.
Laws in Singapore, in Southeast Asia specify the imposition of the death penalty on any citizen caught smuggling more than 500 grams of marijuana or 15 grams of heroin.
Photos: this is the “largest prison in America” for gang members, the mega-work of Nayib Bukele
Saridewi Djamani was sentenced to death in 2018, after being found guilty of possession of approximately 30 grams of heroin with the intent to traffic it.
The highest judicial instance of the city rejected the appeal against the condemned woman on October 6. Even a petition to grant him a presidential pardon was also unsuccessful, authorities said.
“Strong hand now”: the warning after the tragic riot in a women’s prison in Honduras
The woman’s execution comes two days after Mohd Aziz bin Hussain was sentenced to hang, after being investigated for trafficking 50 grams of heroin in 2017.
In April another Singaporean, Tangaraju Suppiah, was executed for smuggling 1 kilogram of marijuana that never passed through his hands. On that occasion, the authorities affirmed that the condemned worked as sales coordinator through your cell phone.
mobilizations
In the last few hours, the position of billionaire Richard Branson has attracted attention. Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson, a well-known British businessman famous for being the founder of the Virgin Group, a multinational comprising more than 360 companies, criticized capital punishment arguing that the death penalty was not a deterrent against crime.
“Small-scale drug dealers need help, as many are intimidated due to their circumstances,” Branson posted on Twitter.
the trial
Local media reported that Saridewi, the woman sentenced to death, had testified during her trial that she had stocked up on the heroin personal use only during the islamic month of fasting.
Although he did not deny that he sold drugs such as heroin and methamphetamine from his apartment, he downplayed the scale of those activities, Judge See Kee Oon said.
Authorities say strict drug laws make Singapore one of the safest places in the world and that capital punishment for such crimes enjoys broad public support.
Record of executions by death penalty in the world
international rights
“There is no evidence that the death penalty has a unique deterrent effect or that it has any impact on the use and availability of drugs,” he said in a statement. Clare Sangiorgiofrom Amnesty International.
“The only message these executions send is that the Singapore government is willing once again to defy international safeguards on the use of the death penalty,” he added.
Amnesty International noted that, along with China, Iran and Saudi Arabia, Singapore is one of only four countries in carrying out drug-related executions.
From the CNB they expressed that “capital punishment is used only for the most serious crimes, such as the trafficking of significant amounts of drugs that cause very serious damage, not only to individual drug addicts, but also to their families and to society in general.” .
The immediate history of a woman sentenced to death in Singapore dated back to 2004 when Yen May Woen She was executed with the death penalty also for drug trafficking. Among those sentenced since then were foreigners and a man with intellectual disabilities. Activists highlight the fast pace with which these sentences are being carried out.
NT/LT
#Singapore #hanged #woman #years