Singapore has executed 14 prisoners this year. Among them was Pannir, hanged earlier this month for a first-time drug offence. Death is the courtesy extended to you as a mercy. This is the first line of a poem called You Die from Within , written last year by then 37-year-old Pannir Selvam Pranthaman while on death row in Singapore. Pannir was convicted of smuggling drugs after 51 grams of pure heroin were found on him at a checkpoint on Singapore's border with Malaysia. According to Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau, there were three packets of a "granular/powdery substance" found on his body and one packet in a compartment on his motorbike.
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