Despite UN pleas for leniency, Singapore has executed its third hanging of a convicted drug trafficker in a week.
According to Singapore’s narcotics enforcement department, Rosman Abdullah, 55, was put to death on Friday for smuggling 57.43 grams of heroin into the city-state in Southeast Asia.
The Central Narcotics Bureau claimed in a statement that Rosman, a Singaporean, was “accorded full due process under the law and was represented by legal counsel throughout the process.”
“Only the most serious crimes, like the trafficking of large amounts of drugs that cause extremely serious harm to drug abusers, their families, and society at large, are subject to the death penalty,” the statement continued.
Singaporean authorities were urged by UN experts to spare Rosman.
