Singapore executes two more drug traffickers despite outcry

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SINGAPORE (AFP) — Singapore hanged two drug traffickers Thursday in what campaigners condemned as a “shameful and inhuman punishment”, taking to four the number of executions in the city-state since March. The latest executions come after the hanging of a mentally disabled man in April sparked international outrage, with the European Union and United Nations among those speaking out against it. Singapore has some of the world’s toughest anti-drugs laws, and insists that capital punishment […]