Singapore faces international pressure over impending cannabis execution

Singapore is set to execute a man for conspiring to traffic 2.24 pounds of cannabis, despite allegations that his rights were not adequately protected during his trial. Tangaraju s/o Suppiah, 46, was sentenced to hang in 2018 under Singapore’s near-mandatory death penalty policy for trafficking more than 1.1 pounds of cannabis. His family and rights groups have called on the government to halt the execution, while international opponents of capital punishment have condemned the decision. Singapore's strict policy on drug crimes has made it an outlier among other similarly wealthy countries.