Yes they do care and yes they will execute you https://duckduckgo.com/?q=singapore+execute+australian even if you are not a king pin, just some dumb kid.
Also don't get stuck there with out health cover/travel insurance or you will regret it, its not malaysia/thailand.
"He said he was carrying them to Australia for a Sydney syndicate to help his brother Khoa, a former heroin addict, pay A$30,000 ($31,460) in debts."
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a...
See how drugs forces people to do "dumb" things?
anyway maybe you will find this interesting http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2010/11/02/3052373...
peace
This is confusing to people not from the US, apparently.
malaria hit him and he ended up in hospital, ended up costing him many thousand of dollars.
yes paying for things like that are foreign to us but the point is if he was stopping over in kuala lumpur or bangkok then he would have paid much less for basically the same high quality of treatment.