A man in Singapore is facing execution for his alleged involvement in trafficking 1kg of cannabis, a charge his family insists is false and that he has never even touched the substance.
Despite growing calls to abolish the death penalty in Singapore, authorities remain firm in their stance and are set to carry out the execution of Tangaraju Suppiah, a 46-year-old Singaporean Tamil national, on 26 April at Changi prison.
Suppiah was convicted of abetting a conspiracy to traffic 1,017.9g of cannabis in 2017 and was sentenced to death in December 2018.
While Suppiah's family is looking to defend him and appeal against the high court's order, they currently do not have legal counsel to file a petition to save him from the capital punishment.
Suppiah's case has reignited debates over the death penalty in Singapore, which has seen scores of protestors take to the streets to demonstrate against capital punishment since its resumption after the Covid pandemic.
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