Singapore on Friday executed first woman convict in nearly 20 years. The country hanged a 45-year-old citizen for drug trafficking, the city-state’s first execution of a woman in nearly 20 years, news agency AFP reported citing officials. The execution took place despite appeals from rights groups, who argue capital punishment has no proven deterrent effect on crime.
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“The capital sentence of death imposed on Saridewi Binte Djamani was carried out on 28 July 2023,” the Central Narcotics Bureau said in a statement, as quoted by AFP Djamani was convicted of trafficking “not less than 30.72 grams” of heroin. She was sentenced in 2018, after being “accorded full due process under the law, and was represented by legal counsel throughout the process,” the bureau said, AFP reported.
“She appealed against her conviction and sentence, and the Court of Appeal dismissed her appeal on 6 October 2022,” the bureau said. It further said, her plea for presidential clemency was also rejected. Djamani,who became the 15th prisoner sent to the gallows since the government resumed executions in March 2022, is the first woman to be executed in the city-state since 2004, when Yen May Woen, a Singaporean, was hanged for drug trafficking.
According to Singapore’s stringent anti-drug laws, trafficking more than 500 grams of cannabis or over 15 grams of heroin can result in the death penalty.
Rights groups, including Amnesty International, urged the government to halt the executions this week, stating that there is no evidence that the death penalty curbed the crime. “This is the fourth execution this year, and there will be another one next week. It’s horrible for the families and worrying for other death row inmates,” Singaporean rights activist Kirsten Han told AFP.
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