Since March 2022, 16 people have been hanged for non-violent drug offences in Singapore.
As local and international attention on the state’s killing spree grows, it’s clear that there’s a death of information and accountability from the state on who is on death row, the conditions that prisoners on death row suffer, how and when executions are scheduled, and how clemency petitions are considered, among other things.
Serious and urgent questions have been raised about why an overwhelming majority of people on death row are ethnic minorities from marginalised backgrounds, how the judicial system is heavily stacked against persons facing capital charges and fraught with risk of unsafe trials, the government’s claims that the death penalty is necessary to deter harmful drug use in Singapore, and the incredible trauma that the death penalty inflicts on families and communities.
People on Death Row
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Legal Challenges
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Abolition Elsewhere
#StopTheKilling is currently focused on :
(A) collecting signatures for a people’s petition calling for a moratorium on executions and an independent review of the death penalty regime, with a target of 50,000 by the end of 2025, and
(B) pressuring parliamentarians to bring the petition into the House for debate.