Capital punishment
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Singapore executes man over plot to smuggle 1kg of cannabis
Tangaraju Suppiah was hanged despite international pleas to reconsider capital punishment for drugs offencesSi…
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Singaporean on death row denied access to lawyers, say activists
Tangaraju Suppiah, due to be hanged this week, forced to self-represent after unsuccessful appealA Singaporean…
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Malaysia set to scrap mandatory death penalty for range of serious crimes
Reform could mean reprieves for some of the 1,300 prisoners on death row, including 500 foreignersMalaysia’s p…
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Japanese man granted retrial after 45 years on death row
Iwao Hakamada, 87, was convicted of four murders in 1968 but granted ‘temporary release’ in 2014 after new evi…
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Richard Branson refuses Singapore invitation to debate death penalty
UK entrepreneur turns down live TV debate and says government should instead engage with local activistsThe Br…
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Wednesday briefing: How four executions could embolden Myanmar’s resistance
In today’s newsletter: As the junta gets ever more brutal, Gen Z protesters are forming a patchwork militia. B…
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The Guardian view on the death penalty: a long way to go | Editorial
Though capital punishment is in global decline, there are horrifying exceptions to the general trendNext month…
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Japan executes man over Tokyo stabbing rampage – reports
Tomohiro Kato, who killed seven people in 2008, was hanged on Tuesday in Japan’s first execution this yearA ma…
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Myanmar executions: US presses China to rein in junta, saying it cannot be ‘business as usual’
State department says military government in Yangon has not faced enough economic and diplomatic pressure, ami…
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Executed Myanmar activist visited Australia in 2012 to complete a political advisers’ course
Phyo Zeya Thaw met then prime minister Julia Gillard when he was brought to Australia by AusAidFollow our Aust…
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Myanmar junta executes democracy activists in first such killings in decades
Democracy figures, including former lawmaker in Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, executed after being accused of carr…
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Myanmar junta says it will execute two prominent pro-democracy leaders
Four people including ex-MP Phyo Zeya Thaw and Ko Jimmy to be put to deathMyanmar’s junta has said it will exe…
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Outcry as Singapore executes man with learning difficulties over drugs offence
Campaigners decry ‘broken system’ in Singapore that disproportionately punishes drug mules rather than those w…
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Singapore hardens opinion against death penalty as ‘sense of injustice’ grows
High-profile death row case prompts some Singaporeans to call for executions to be halted though overall suppo…
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Singapore appeal court upholds death sentence for intellectually disabled man
Outcry over drug smuggling case of Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, who has IQ of 69 and could be executed in daysA…