Singapore about to Execute Man with Mental Disability
nytimes.com
nytimes.com
I for one am never going there again. It's a great place if not for this barbarism, wholly incompatible with modern values.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_for_juvenil...
I mean, sure, never go there again, and tsk tsk those who anchor their startups there. But not from the US/S.V. glasshouse. If you want to be consistent, you can come here and tsk tsk both Singapore and US while anchoring your startup in E.U, which has long been done with the death penalty.
"During his 2010 trial, he claimed he was coerced into carrying the drugs, but he later changed his account, saying he had attempted to smuggle the heroin because he needed money. The court concluded that his story of duress was fabricated and sentenced him to death.
In 2015, he appealed to have his sentence commuted to life in prison. His lawyers argued that his I.Q. of 69, which is just below the internationally recognized threshold of 70 for determining whether someone has an intellectual disability, made him incapable of fully understanding his actions. They also argued that he suffered from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and a drinking disorder, which affected his judgment and impulse control."
The title is quite misleading by itself.
Not sure, but maybe NYT's investigators and journalists can find out.