Kuala Lumpur: An Indian-origin Malaysian man with a mental disability and convicted of drug trafficking is scheduled to be executed in Singapore’s Changi prison on Wednesday, after losing a final appeal, a media report said on Thursday.
Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, 34, was detained in 2009 and convicted of trafficking 42.72 grams of heroin in 2010, a crime punishable by the mandatory death penalty under Singapore law.
“Just received the heart-breaking news that Nagaenthren will be hanged next Wednesday,” Malaysian daily The Star quoted Dharmalingam’s former lawyer in Singapore M Ravi as saying.
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