Kalwant to hang as scheduled after Singapore court throws out stay application
The Malaysian had also sought a review of his conviction and sentence for trafficking 60g of drugs into the city-state.
Malaysian Kalwant Singh will be hanged as scheduled tomorrow after failing in an eleventh-hour bid to stay his execution for the offence of trafficking just over 60g of diamorphine into Singapore nine years ago.
Kalwant was arrested in the island republic on Oct 24, 2013, when he was 23 years old. He was handed the death penalty on June 1, 2016.
He filed a notice of motion yesterday to the Singapore Court of Appeal for a stay of his execution as well as a review of his conviction and sentence.
His stay application was heard by a three-man bench today.
The court however dismissed his bid, meaning that he will be executed at Changi prison at dawn tomorrow.
Kalwant's date with the gallows comes less than three months after the execution of Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, which took place despite an international outcry and amid increasing scrutiny of the republic’s use of the death penalty.
He had an IQ of 69, a level recognised as a disability, and was reportedly coerced into committing the crime of drug trafficking.
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