SINGAPORE, April 28 ― Singapore authorities late yesterday defended a decision to execute a Malaysian drug trafficker, in response to international criticism over their use of the death penalty.
His lawyers and activists have said Nagaenthran's IQ was found to be 69, a level recognised as an intellectual disability. The Attorney General's Chambers said in a separate statement Nagaenthran was given a fair trial and had “exhausted his rights of appeal and almost every other recourse under the law over some 11 years”.
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