Nazeri Lajim, a Singaporean, was hung this morning, the latest in a succession of drug-related executions in the city-state amid increased attention over its ongoing use of the death sentence.
Nazeri was executed in Changi jail in Singapore at 6 a.m. It is believed that members of his family are to the prison to collect his body and make funeral preparations.
The funeral prayers will be held at Masjid Assyakirin in Taman Jurong, according to anti-death penalty campaigner Kokila Annamalai, who accompanied the family to the jail today.
The bones of Nazeri will be sent to the Muslim graveyard at Masjid Al-Firdaus.
Five years after his arrest with two bundles of heroin, 64-year-old Nazeri was condemned to death in 2017.
His attorneys argued, based on medical data, to reopen his case on the basis that he had claimed the medications were for his own usage.
Nazeri was one of seventeen death row convicts who launched a landmark lawsuit against the Singaporean government, accusing it of discrimination and unfairness in their prosecution owing to their Malay race.
The court rejected the claim late last year, citing an abuse of procedure. Later, the Singapore attorney general brought two attorneys who had represented the prisoners to court, where he was granted costs for their "without consent" filing of the complaint.
Wednesday, the High Court denied his request to vacate his death sentence so he may pursue a judicial review of his constitutional rights to equitable treatment.
Yesterday, in his final appeal, Nazeri appealed for mercy and requested more time to see his family members and siblings.
However, the judge stated that the court's ruling was definitive.
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