Death Penalty News

Dubai Appellate Court upheld the first-instance court’s ruling sentencing a young Arab man to death for the premeditated murder of his European girlfriend on a staircase near her apartment. The crime was committed after she requested to end their relationship due to her involvement with another person. According to case documents, the murder took place in July 2020, when the defendant had been lying in wait for the victim, intending to kill her to avenge himself because she no longer wished to continue their relationship. He slit her throat and eviscerated her.

Hengaw – Friday, August 29, 2025 - The death sentences of two women—identified as Mitra Yasamani and Banoo Moghadam—were carried out this week in the central prisons of Shiraz and Zanjan.  They had been sentenced to death in separate cases on charges of drug-related offenses and premeditated murder. According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, at dawn on Thursday, August 28, 2025, Banoo Moghadam, a 59-year-old Turkish woman, was executed in Abhar Prison, Zanjan Province. She had been arrested four years ago for the alleged murder of her son-in-law, whom she killed after he threatened her daughter.

The impending execution of a man by firing squad in Utah was blocked by the state’s Supreme Court on Friday after his attorneys argued he should be spared because he has dementia. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in 1986. When given a choice decades ago, Menzies selected a firing squad as his method of execution. He would have become only the sixth US prisoner executed by firing squad since 1977.

One hundred people were executed in July, more than double the number of people executed in July of last year, according to the Office for the High Commissioner of Human Rights. More than 800 people have been executed in Iran since the start of the year, the UN said Friday, decrying "a systematic pattern of using the death penalty as a tool of state intimidation". The United Nations rights office said there had been a "major increase in executions during the first half of 2025".

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); August 29, 2025: Mohammad Ali Lashari, a Baluch minority, and Hessam Dadkhah were executed for drug-related offences in Isfahan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were hanged in Isfahan (Dastgerd) Central Prison on 27 August 2025. Their identities have been established as Mohammad Ali Lashari (photo), a 38-year-old Baluch father of three from Zahedan, and Hessam (Keyvan) Dadkhah from Najaf Abad in Isfahan.

Florida executes man on death row in state’s 11th execution this year Curtis Windom, convicted over 1992 killings, put to death at Florida state prison after appeals rejected by supreme court.  A man convicted of killing his girlfriend, her mother and a man he claimed owed him $2,000 was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday, marking a record 11th execution in the state of Florida this year. Curtis Windom, 59, was pronounced dead at 6.17pm local time at Florida state prison near Starke, authorities said. During Windom’s last moments alive, he ate his last meal on Thursday August 28, which consisted of ribs, baked beans, collard greens, potato salad, pie, ice cream, and a soda, as per ABC 13. At 6.02pm, Windom was given the lethal injection. He provided his last words; however, they were unintelligible to those in the witness box. He then took several deep breaths, his chest moving and legs twitching before no more movement was seen past 6.08pm.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore will take a harder stance against drug-laced vapes from September as it changes the classification of anaesthetic agent etomidate from a poison to a drug, the government announced on Thursday. Users of vapes laced with the substance will face a fine and mandatory rehabilitation of up to six months instead of just a fine, while importers of etomidate face up to 15 strokes of the cane and a maximum of 20 years in jail, up from a maximum of two years’ jail. Vaping has been banned in Singapore since 2018 but authorities have not clamped down hard on the devices until recently, citing the emergence of drug-laced vapes.

Entrevista exclusiva con el preso español, condenado en EEUU a cadena perpetua, después de que se conociera que su defensa ha presentado la declaración de un testigo en la que se le exculparía de ser el autor del triple asesinato en 1994. El caso de Pablo Ibar, el español condenado a cadena perpetua en Estados Unidos, dio un nuevo vuelco el pasado 23 de junio. Tras una investigación que se ha llevado en secreto, ese día su defensa presentó en los juzgados de Broward County una declaración jurada de un testigo en la que se le exculpaba de ser el autor del triple asesinato cometido en la ciudad de Miramar (Florida) en 1994. 

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); August 27, 2025: Asef Rakhshani, a Baluch man on death row for drug-related offences, was secretly executed in Birjand Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was hanged in Birjand Central Prison on 26 August 2025. His identity has been established as Asef Rakhshani, a 29-year-old Baluch father of eight who was sentenced to death on drug-related charges. An informed source told IHRNGO: “Asef Rakhshani was arrested on drug charges in Birjand around two years ago and had vehemently and consistently denied the charges. He was executed without his family being notified or a last family visit.”

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his girlfriend, her mother and a man he claimed owed him $2,000 is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday in what would be a record 11th execution in the state of Florida this year. Curtis Windom, 59, would become the 30th person executed this year in the U.S., with Florida leading the way behind a flurry of death warrants signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. A 12th man, David Joseph Pittman, 63, is scheduled to be put to death in Florida on Sept. 17. Windom, whose final appeals for a stay were rejected Wednesday by the U.S. Supreme Court, is scheduled to be executed at Florida State Prison near Starke. He was sentenced to die for the Nov. 7, 1992, killing of Johnnie Lee, Valerie Davis and Mary Lubin in the Orlando area.

US President Donald Trump has said he plans to seek the death penalty for suspected murderers in Washington DC. Speaking during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Trump said that the death penalty would be a "preventative" measure. Hundreds of National Guard and federal law enforcement officers have been deployed to the US capital to combat what Trump has previously described as "complete and total lawlessness" in the city - a strategy he has hinted could be repeated in Chicago and other cities.

Two men were each publicly flogged 76 times this Tuesday in the conservative province of Aceh, Indonesia, after being found guilty of engaging in homosexual acts by a court that applies strict Islamic law. Homosexual relations are banned in Aceh, which enforces a strict version of sharia, or Islamic law, but they are not illegal elsewhere in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country. "The criminalization of homosexual relations has no place in a just and humane society."

Nawal Filali, founder of the Aji Nt3awnou Association, told MWN that the petition demands maximum sentences, chemical castration, death penalty, and the removal of any mitigating circumstances for child sexual assaults. Rabat – The Moroccan association “Yallah Nt3awnou” has launched a national petition calling on the Minister of Justice, Abdellatif Ouahbi, and Parliament to impose harsher penalties for rape and sexual assault against children, including the death penalty for repeat offenders.

A brutal domestic murder in Guangdong province has ignited a firestorm of public outrage across China’s social‑media landscape, and the case is now back in the courts.  On a recent hearing, the Dongguan Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Yang Moumou to a “death with reprieve” – a suspended death sentence that can be commuted to life imprisonment if the convicted shows good behavior – for the killing of his 26‑year‑old wife, Chen Mouqi.

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); August 24, 2025: Taher Firouzi, a man on death row for murder, was executed in Gorgan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was hanged in Gorgan Central Prison on 23 August 2025. His identity has been established as 31-year-old Taher Firouzi who was arrested for a murder during a street fight five years ago. He was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) by the Criminal Court.

A federal judge on Thursday declined to dismiss capital firearms charges against a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people in Buffalo in 2022.  Federal attorneys for Payton Gendron, 22, had argued that the 10 firearms offenses should be dismissed for lack of a legal basis, or failure to state an offense.  Gendron's public defenders contended the charges should have been dropped because a person can violate the Hate Crimes Act in ways that do not require use of force, including an act of self-harm, and as a consequence, a violation of the statute is not categorically a crime of violence. 

As the days tick down to Ralph Menzies’ execution, anti-death penalty advocates said Friday that a firing squad leaves open the possibility for human error and potential suffering.  Menzies is scheduled to die on Sept. 5 for kidnapping and murdering Maurine Hunsaker in 1986 — he is still awaiting a ruling from the Utah Supreme Court, which is considering whether his dementia warrants a pause in execution proceedings for a new competency evaluation.  If the execution does happen, it would be the 4th firing squad the U.S. has seen in 15 years, and just the 6th since executions resumed in 1977.

Man admitted to working with an overseas trafficker for a fee of Dh5,000 per delivery.  Dubai: A man convicted of trafficking large quantities of the amphetamine Captagon has been spared the death penalty after the UAE’s highest court overturned three previous death sentences, citing procedural flaws. He was resentenced to life imprisonment instead. The Asian national had initially been convicted by Abu Dhabi’s federal criminal court after undercover officers arranged a sting operation in which he delivered a car trunk full of drugs on behalf of a dealer based outside the country. 

Several months ago, Brandon Michael Angevine was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of sexual battery on a child younger than 12. Angevine also was charged with five counts of possession of child pornography. Under Florida law, Angevine could have faced the death penalty for the sexual battery case, but prosecutors declined to seek that punishment. If convicted at trial, Angevine would be sentenced to life in prison. On Aug. 21, Angevine appeared in front of Circuit Judge Timothy McCourt for trial priority. At the hearing, Angevine said he wanted to change his plea to guilty for the sexual battery charge and no contest for the child porn charges.

At least 160 people were executed in Iran over the past month, according to a report by the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), which warned that the pace of executions in the country is accelerating. HRANA said the executions took place during the Iranian month of Mordad (July 23 to Aug. 22), averaging one every five hours. It also documented 16 new death sentences and four confirmations of capital punishment, including that of jailed labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi. Three executions were carried out in public.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lyle Menendez was denied parole Friday, a day after his younger brother Erik received the same recommendation by a California state board. Their separate hearings this week come nearly 30 years after the brothers were convicted of first-degree murder for the 1989 killings of their parents. They were sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1996. But after a Los Angeles judge reduced their sentences to 50 years to life in May, they immediately became eligible for parole under California law because they were under age 26 when they committed their crimes.

Lawyers for Idaho’s longest-serving death row prisoner are renewing their efforts to spare him from execution after the state failed last year to put him to death by lethal injection. Thomas Creech, 74, has remained in limbo for more than 18 months since prison officials called off his execution in February 2024 following nearly 50 years of incarceration.  Members of the execution team were unable to find a vein in his body suitable for an IV to deliver the lethal dose of drugs. The experience, which included a judge signing another death warrant for Creech last year, left him with post-traumatic stress disorder and “profound psychological damage,” according to a court filing that cited the doctor who diagnosed him.

Reacting to the news that Saudi authorities executed Jalal Labbad on August 21, 2025 for crimes allegedly committed when he was under 18 years of age [a child], Bissan Fakih, Amnesty International’s Middle East Campaigner, said: “Saudi Arabia’s execution of Jalal Labbad is deplorable and underscores the devastating toll of the authorities’ ruthless use of the death penalty in complete disregard of one of the most absolute prohibitions to its use. The imposition of the death penalty for crimes allegedly committed by people when they were children is prohibited under international human rights law and customary international law.

In what is being described as the “last big hurdle” before his Sept. 5 execution, attorneys for death row inmate Ralph Menzies argued before the Utah Supreme Court that the state should pause proceedings and give the 67-year-old convicted killer with dementia another review to see if he is competent.   Menzies — sentenced to die by firing squad for the 1986 kidnapping and murder of 26-year-old Maurine Hunsaker — is running out of appeals. His death warrant has been signed, the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole recently denied him clemency and his execution is now almost two weeks away. 

Court documents share new details of deadly Tremonton shooting Prosecutors will pursue the death penalty against the man accused of shooting and killing two Tremonton-Garland police officers and wounding a third sheriff’s deputy and his service dog, according to court documents filed Wednesday that shed new light on the shooting.  Ryan Michael Bate, 32, is now facing 20 separate charges for the shooting that rocked the small, northern Utah community of Tremonton Sunday night — that includes two counts of aggravated murder for the deaths of Tremonton-Garland Police Sgt. Lee Sorensen and officer Eric Estrada.

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); August 21, 2025: Hossein Karimi, Reza Abbasi, Taleb Reikani and Morteza Sayvand were executed in a group hanging in Isfahan Central Prison. There is no news about the fate of four other prisoners transferred to the pre-execution solitary confinement cells with the executed group. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, at least four men were hanged in Isfahan Central Prison on 20 August 2025. Two of the men who were on death row for drug-related offences have been identified as 38-year-old Hossein Karimi from Khomeini city, and 40-year-old Reza Abbasi from Najaf Abad. They were arrested four and three years respectively, and sentenced to death on drug-related charges.

Mahsa Akbari, a woman on death row for murder, was executed in Shiraz Central Prison.  According to Tabnak, a woman was hanged in Shiraz (Adel Abad) Central Prison on 20 August 2025. The unnamed woman was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. IHRNGO has established her identity as Mahsa Akbari.  An informed source told IHRNGO: “Mahsa was arrested for murder 2 years ago. She was married at 16 and her husband had forced her into participating in a robbery that had ended with the murder of a mother and her 3 young daughters.”

The Hue People's Court in central Vietnam has sentenced four people to death for trafficking nearly 30 kg of narcotics, the largest drug case ever recorded in the city. Authorities said the ring was dismantled in time to prevent a large volume of narcotics from entering Hue and neighbouring provinces. A total of 29.06 kg of drugs of different kinds, was seized, including over 20.9 kg of methamphetamine, 4.1 kg of ketamine, nearly 388 g of MDMA.  The defendants were prosecuted for "illegal transportation" and "illegal trading" of narcotics under the Penal Code.

The board said he can next be eligible for parole in three years. Erik Menendez was denied parole during his first-ever parole hearing on Thursday, 36 years and one day after he and his brother killed their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez. Erik Menendez, 54, attended the nearly 10-hour hearing via video from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. The board said he can next be eligible for parole in three years.

Judiciary says man was put to death at scene of triple murder he committed last year in the city of Kordkuy, as Tehran continues wave of capital punishments. Iran publicly hanged a convicted murderer at the scene of his alleged crime on Thursday, the judiciary said, just two days after another public execution. Most executions in Iran are carried out inside prisons. Public executions are generally reserved for offenses that caused particular outrage.

DOC records show that Matthew Caylor died Wednesday after over 15 years on Florida's death row According to Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) records, Florida death row prisoner Matthew Caylor died Wednesday, August 20, while in DOC custody after serving over 15 years on death row.  Caylor was 50 years old at the time of his death. Sources indicate Caylor died by suicide Tuesday night after Kayle Bates’ execution . State policy requires that an autopsy be performed for all deaths; however, those records would only be accessible through a public records request.

In an August 14, 2025, op-ed in the South Florida Sun Sentinel , for­mer Alabama Governor Don Siegelman revealed he has ​“lived to regret” not com­mut­ing death sen­tences while he was in office, and crit­i­cized Florida’s exe­cu­tion selec­tion process, cit­ing seri­ous con­cerns with secre­cy and racial bias. Writing about two sched­uled exe­cu­tions in Florida — Kayle Bates on August 19 and Curtis Windom on August 28 — Gov. Siegelman argues the cas­es sur­face sys­temic prob­lems in Florida’s death penalty system.

The Utah Board of Pardons and Parole has denied Ralph Menzies’ request for clemency, one of the death row inmate’s final appeals ahead of his execution scheduled for Sept. 5.  The announcement came Tuesday afternoon, four days after the commutation hearing for the 67-year-old inmate, where board members heard arguments for and against granting Menzies mercy.  Menzies is scheduled to die by firing squad after spending nearly four decades in prison for the 1986 murder of Maurine Hunsaker, a 26-year-old gas station clerk whom Menzies kidnapped. Hunsaker was brought up Big Cottonwood Canyon, where Menzies tied her to a tree, strangled her, then slashed her throat.

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); August 19, 2025: Ali Omidi Moghaddam and Iman Jozi, two men on death row for separate murder, were executed in Khorramabad Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were hanged in Khorramabad Central Prison on 17 August 2025. Their identities have been established as 36-year-old Ali Omidi Moghaddam and 32-year-old Iman Jozi. They were sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder in separate cases by the Criminal Court.

Iran Human Rights (IHNRGO); August 19, 2025: State media reported the public hanging of an unnamed man in the small city of Beyrom. IHRNGO has established his identity as Sajad Molayi Hakani. Video footage shows the presence of many children amongst the spectators. This is the sixth public hanging in 2025 and the second to feature a significant number of children. Referring to the Islamic Republic’s disregard for its international treaty obligations, especially the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which Iran has ratified, IHRNGO urges the international community to take a strong stance against public executions and intensify efforts to end the death penalty in Iran.

Florida man executed for 1982 killing of abducted woman, in state's 10th execution of 2025  A man convicted of abducting a woman from a Florida Panhandle insurance office and killing her was executed Tuesday evening.  Kayle Bates, 67, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. following a 3-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. It was the 10th death sentence carried out by the state of Florida in 2025, extending the state record for executions in a single year. Two more executions are planned within the next month. 

A Peruvian woman has been accused of attempting to smuggle $70,000-worth (£52,000) of cocaine and ecstasy into Bali, concealed in her underwear and a sex toy. The woman, who was only identified by the initials N.S., was stopped by customs officials who felt she was acting oddly, police said. "The narcotics were hidden in six plastic packages wrapped in black duct tape inside a green bra, three similar packages in black underwear, and a sex toy containing drugs, which was inserted into her body," Radiant, Bali police's narcotics unit director, who goes by one name, told reporters.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of abducting a woman from a Florida Panhandle insurance office and killing her is scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening. Kayle Bates, 67, is set to receive a lethal injection at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. It would be Florida’s 10th death sentence carried out in 2025, further extending the state record for a single year. Two more executions are planned within the next month. Since the U.S. Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, the highest previous annual total of Florida executions was eight in 2014. Florida has executed more people than any other state this year, while Texas and South Carolina are tied for second place with four each.

The Groningen court ruled against extraditing the American Kendra Leigh W. to the United States, where she is wanted for the murder of her ex-husband.  According to the court, there is too much uncertainty about whether the woman will face the death penalty if she is returned to the state of South Carolina, RTV Noord reports. W. is suspected of murdering her 29-year-old ex-husband, Connor Lloyd, four years ago. He was shot dead in his driveway in the city of Lyman.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond, who is running for governor, told Glossip’s lawyer that the timing of his release hinged “on his own political calculus.” It was almost 10 a.m. and the eighth-floor courtroom in downtown Oklahoma City was nearly empty, save for a few onlookers and reporters. A Thursday morning hearing had been scheduled in the case of Richard Glossip, but he wasn’t there — neither were his attorneys nor the attorneys for the state. Minutes later, the gaggle of lawyers emerged from a door leading to the judge’s chambers, and Don Knight, Glossip’s longtime lead attorney, approached Glossip’s wife Lea in the front row of the gallery to deliver some news: Judge Heather Coyle had just recused herself from Glossip’s case. There was no explanation why.

The Melaka High Court describes the killings as 'cruel' after the dismembered remains of victims were found in bushes six years ago. PETALING JAYA: A Singaporean man has been sentenced to 72 years in prison and 24 strokes of the rotan by the Melaka High Court for murdering his wife and stepson, whose dismembered remains were found in bushes six years ago. Justice Anselm Charles Fernandis ordered Shahrul Nizam Zuraimy, 36, to serve 36 years’ in jail and 12 strokes of the rotan for each charge, with the sentences running consecutively from his arrest on Oct 11, 2019.

On 14 Aug 2025, Singapore granted clemency to Tristan Tan, commuting his death sentence to life to “reduce disparity” with a co-accused. Yet this disparity arose from opaque prosecutorial discretion, not judicial findings. Meanwhile, clemency was denied to Nagaenthran, who had intellectual disability — exposing troubling inconsistencies in how mercy is applied.  On 14 August 2025, Singapore’s Cabinet advised President Tharman Shanmugaratnam to commute the death sentence of 33-year-old Tristan Tan Yi Rui to life imprisonment.

A Hezbollah terrorist sentenced to death in absentia for the 2022 killing of Irish UN peacekeeper Private Seán Rooney in Lebanon is believed to be hiding in Iran, Ireland’s Sunday World newspaper reported, citing diplomatic sources. Mohammad Ayyad was convicted by a Lebanese military tribunal late in July for his role in the fatal attack on a UN convoy near the village of Al-Aqbiya, south of Beirut. He was not present at the trial, and Lebanese authorities have not disclosed his whereabouts. “We suspect he is in Iran and it is unlikely anyone will hand him over to face a death penalty,” one diplomatic source told the newspaper. “It is not a satisfactory situation but all we can do is keep the pressure on and see if we can get justice for Seán and his family.”

The prisoner, Ghulam Rasool Faqeer, was apprehended on charges of smuggling heroin into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Saudi authorities on Sunday carried out the execution of an Afghan national convicted of trying to smuggle heroin into the Kingdom, again demonstrating Riyadh’s zero-tolerance policy against drugs.  The prisoner, Ghulam Rasool Faqeer, was apprehended on charges of smuggling heroin into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Interior. He was convicted upon trial in a competent court and given the death penalty. 

Scotty Gardner wants out of “his cave” at the Varner SuperMax Prison south of Grady, Arkansas. In messages with USA TODAY, he described the conditions of his cell as, “a walk-in closet with a shower, toilet, a sink and drain in the floor that bugs crawl in and out constantly.” He also mentioned recurring issues with black mold and toilets that constantly overflow. To get out, Gardner is asking the state to be the first inmate executed since 2017. 

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); August 16, 2025: Branch 39 of Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty of political prisoner, Sharifeh Mohammadi despite leaving unaddressed the same flaws that had previously led to the ruling being overturned. Reiterating that the Islamic Republic is determined to execute political prisoners and espionage defendants following the 12-day Israel-Iran war, Iran Human Rights once again warns of the imminent danger of their execution. IHRNGO Director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “All political and security death row prisoners are currently at serious risk of execution. It is vital that their families and lawyers publicise their cases, and that the public, civil society and the international community work to halt the Islamic Republic’s execution machine by increasing its political cost.”

Jennifer Herron is the daughter of Maurine Hunsaker, who was murdered by Utah death row inmate Ralph Menzies. I am the oldest daughter born to Maurine Hunsaker, who was murdered by Ralph Menzies in 1986. She was 17 years old at the time of my birth. She was on welfare and barely getting by having one child before me, and for that and other reasons I was placed for adoption. Unlike my older brother, I don’t recall meeting my birth mother, but it is possible that I did. My grandmother was a friend of the family that adopted me, which is how the adoption was arranged.

The scheduled execution of an Alabama Death Row inmate will not go forward next week as the state waits for the completion of a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation. A judge last month stayed the Aug. 21 execution of David Lee Roberts until a mental evaluation could be conducted to see if Roberts is competent to be executed.  The Alabama Department of Corrections said Friday that the report will not be completed by the scheduled Aug. 21 execution date.

Latest appeal is over the race of the victims of capital crimes since Governor Ron DeSantis took office WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — His family in West Palm Beach remembers Kayle Bates as a polite young man with a bright future when he joined the Florida National Guard after graduating high school. His cousin Gabrielle Wise-Brice has made several trips to see him in prison. “I’ve been visiting him since I was a little girl,” said Wise-Brice. “He always checks in on me so he can know I have my head on my shoulders. He’s just been a great person.” “He was evil,” countered Frank McKeithen, the recently retired Bay County sheriff who was the lead investigator in the 1982 murder of Janet Renee White near Panama City.

Although the capital sentence was "legally sound", the Cabinet recommended granting clemency to "reduce the disparity" with the sentence in another case. SINGAPORE: A convicted drug trafficker was spared the death penalty and given life imprisonment on Thursday (Aug 14) after he was granted a pardon by President Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Tristan Tan Yi Rui, 33, was sentenced to death in 2023 after he was found guilty of possessing not less than 337.6g of methamphetamine for trafficking. His conviction and capital sentence were upheld by the Court of Appeal.