Singapore urged not to hang mentally disabled trafficker

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SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) — Singapore faced calls Friday not to hang a mentally disabled Malaysian man for trafficking a small amount of heroin into the city-state, with campaigners criticizing the planned execution as “despicable”. Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam was arrested in 2009 for transporting 43 grams — equivalent to about three tablespoons — of the drug into Singapore, and sentenced to death the following year. After exhausting a series of legal challenges in the city-state, which […]