{"id":43504,"date":"2022-04-13T12:41:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T03:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/13\/singapore-hardens-opinion-against-death-penalty-as-sense-of-injustice-grows"},"modified":"2022-04-13T12:41:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T03:41:14","slug":"singapore-hardens-opinion-against-death-penalty-as-sense-of-injustice-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43504","title":{"rendered":"Singapore hardens opinion against death penalty as \u2018sense of injustice\u2019 grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High-profile death row case prompts some Singaporeans to call for executions to be halted though overall support for capital punishment remains high <\/p>\n<p>The news was delivered in just a few cold sentences. An appeal for clemency for Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a man on death row whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/29\/singapore-appeal-court-upholds-death-sentence-for-nagaenthran-k-dharmalingam\">case has prompted a global outcry<\/a>, had failed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease be informed that the position&#8230;remains unchanged\u201d wrote Singapore president\u2019s principal private secretary, in a letter to Nagaenthran\u2019s family: \u201cThe sentence of death therefore stands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/13\/singapore-hardens-opinion-against-death-penalty-as-sense-of-injustice-grows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-profile death row case prompts some Singaporeans to call for executions to be halted though overall support for capital punishment remains high The news was delivered in just a few cold sentences. An appeal for clemency for Nagaenthran Dharmalinga&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1038,783,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-capital-punishment","category-singapore","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43505,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43504\/revisions\/43505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}