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Section 316 of the [[Criminal law of Singapore#Criminal Procedure Code|Criminal Procedure Code]] states that the death penalty in Singapore is to be conducted by hanging.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
 
Hangings always take place at dawn and are conducted by the [[Hanging#Long drop|long drop method]]. The Singapore government has affirmed its choice of execution by hanging in favour of [[Capital punishment|other methods]].<ref>{{cite news|url=httphttps://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2005/-11/-21/1513132.htmsingapore-stands-by-hanging/745506|title=Singapore stands by hanging|work=ABC News|date=21 November 2005|access-date=2007-12-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090121034717/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2005/11/21/1513132.htm|archive-date=2009-01-21|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
It is a normal practice for everyone present in the courtroom to stand and remain silent before the death sentence is passed.<ref>{{cite news|title=I witnessed the death sentence being passed|url=https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/04/21/i-witnessed-the-death-sentence-being-passed/|publisher=The Online Citizen|date=21 April 2015}}</ref> The judge will then proceed to announce the death sentence on the accused, who has been found guilty and convicted of the capital offence. The condemned will be given notice at least four days before execution. In the case of foreigners sentenced to death, their families and diplomatic missions or embassies will be given one to two weeks' notice.<ref name="The Singapore Government's Response To Amnesty International's Report">{{cite web
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Under Schedule 2 of the [[Misuse of Drugs Act (Singapore)|Misuse of Drugs Act]],<ref>{{Singapore legislation | cap=185 | ed=2001}}</ref><ref>[http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/non_version/cgi-bin/cgi_getdata.pl?actno=2008-REVED-185&segid=1207125305-001819 Second Schedule - Offences Punishable on Conviction]</ref> any person importing or exporting more than the following quantities of drugs receives a mandatory death sentence:
* 12001,200&nbsp;grams of [[opium]] and containing more than 30&nbsp;grams of morphine (§5 and §7, (2)(b));
* 30&nbsp;grams of [[morphine]] (§5 and §7, (3)(b));
* 15&nbsp;grams of [[diamorphine]] (heroin) (diamo (§5 and §7, (4)(b));
* 30&nbsp;grams of [[cocaine]] (§5 and §7, (5)(b));
* 500&nbsp;grams of [[cannabis (drug)|cannabis]] (§5 and §7, (6)(b));
* 10001,000&nbsp;grams of cannabis mixture (§5 and §7, (7)(b));
* 200&nbsp;grams of [[cannabis resin]] (§5 and §7, (8)(b));
* 250&nbsp;grams of [[methamphetamine]] (§5 and §7, (9)(b)).
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There were a few instances where in certain high-profile cases, the public would argue for the death penalty to be imposed on those who allegedly committed murder. In the case of [[Annie Ee Yu Lian]] who was abused and murdered by her two friends, some Singaporeans were angered at the cruelty displayed by the offenders and felt that the sentences (which were between 14 and 16 years) for grievous hurt were too light, which prompted them to petition for harsher punishments; some even demanded for the death penalty to be imposed on the couple.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://mothership.sg/2017/11/singaporean-couple-torture-intellectually-disabled-woman-death/ |title=1 day 10,000 signatures: Intellectually disabled woman tortured to death by couple sparks outrage |work=Mothership |location= Singapore |date=29 November 2017 |access-date=20 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://theindependent.sg/netizens-call-for-justice-for-abused-and-killed-annie-ee-yu-lian/|title=The tragic death of intellectually disabled waitress Annie Ee Yu Lian|work=The Independent |location= Singapore |date=1 December 2017 |access-date=20 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= https://mothership.sg/2017/12/annie-ee-yu-lian-killers/ |title=Why the couple who tortured intellectually disabled woman to death wasn't charged with murder |work=Mothership |location= Singapore |date=1 December 2017 |access-date=20 April 2022}}</ref> In another case regarding the death of four-year-old [[death of Mohamad Daniel Mohamad Nasser|Mohamad DanialDaniel Mohamad Nasser]] due to child abuse perpetuated by his mother and her boyfriend, some Singaporeans felt that their sentences of ten to eleven years were too light and petitioned to the courts to sentence the couple to death.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://theindependent.sg/sentence-abusers-who-caused-death-of-boy-to-be-hung-netizens-petition-court/|title=Sentence abusers who caused death of boy to be hung, netizens petition Court|website=The Independent (Singapore)|date=26 June 2016|access-date=16 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/death-of-abused-2-year-old-boy-mother-jailed-11-years-boyfriend-gets-10-years|title=Death of abused 2-year-old boy: Mother jailed 11 years, boyfriend gets 10 years and 12 strokes of the cane|website=The Straits Times|date=5 July 2016|access-date=16 October 2021}}</ref>
 
Younger generations of Singaporeans tend to have a more liberal approach towards drug use. The government, in response, has introduced education programmes on the dangers of drugs.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/youth-liberal-attitude-towards-drugs-1933351|title=Youths' lax mindset, liberal attitudes on drugs pose stiff challenge to S'pore authorities' zero tolerance stance|website=Today|date=26 June 2022|access-date=28 June 2022}}</ref> There were cases of ex-drug convicts who also advocated against the use of drugs; some even agree that the death penalty was effective. A former trafficker once stated that in the past, he would always make sure the measurement of his delivered drugs were below the minimum amount to avoid capital punishment.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/drugs-deterrence-and-death-penalties|title=Ex-trafficker recalls calculating drug quantities on him to avoid capital punishment|website=The Straits Times|date=20 June 2022|access-date=20 June 2022}}</ref> A female prisoner and drug convict also spoke up about the death penalty while being interviewed in prison, where she was serving 26 years' jail since 2014. She agreed to the relevance and effect of the death penalty in stopping people from selling and taking drugs, as she knew how drug trafficking caused damage to families and inflict sufferings especially to the children of drug addicts.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/she-hopes-drug-sellers-will-think-about-impact-on-families-convicted-trafficker|title=Convicted trafficker hopes drug sellers will think about impact on families|website=The Straits Times|date=20 June 2022|access-date=20 June 2022}}</ref> Simon Khung, a social media influencer who eventually stopped taking drugs after the 2020 murder of his daughter [[death of Megan Khung|Megan Khung]] (who was allegedly killed by her mother),<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.sinchew.com.my/20211031/%E6%92%9E%E4%BA%A4%E8%AD%A6%E6%A1%88%E8%A2%AB%E6%8D%95%E4%B9%98%E5%AE%A2%E8%87%AA%E6%8F%AD-4%E5%B2%81%E5%A5%B3%E9%81%87%E5%AE%B3%E5%90%8E%E5%B7%B2%E6%94%B9%E8%BF%87%E4%B8%8D%E7%A2%B0%E6%AF%92/|title=撞交警案被捕乘客自揭-4岁女遇害后已改过不碰毒|work=Sin Chew Daily|date=31 October 2021}}</ref> told a newspaper in 2024 that he supported the death penalty for drug trafficking, as he felt that the drug situation in Singapore would grow worse in the absence of capital punishment and more people would become drug abusers and ruin their lives like he and the former abusers had in their pasts; Khung's stance was supported by other ex-abusers, and one of them, Bruce Mathieu (who overcame his drug addiction seven years prior), said that the death penalty had deterred him from resorting to drug smuggling.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/death-penalty-former-drug-abusers-simonboy-bruce-mathieu|title=‘Singapore’s'Singapore's strict for a reason’reason': Former drug abusers share what will happen if the death penalty is abolished|website=AsiaOne|date=26 January 2024 }}</ref>
 
In the aftermath of several executions, there were discussions among the Singaporean public about the need for compassion for some death row inmates, owing to arguments that many death row inmates had come from low-income families or had drug addictions before ending up on death row. However, the public sentiments remained leaning towards capital punishment for drugs, owing to arguments concerning rampant rates of drug trafficking in the [[Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)|Golden Triangle]] in [[Southeast Asia]], the effectiveness of the death penalty in maintaining Singapore's low crime rate, and the impact drugs have had on the addicts and their families.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/singapores-death-penalty-room-compassion-151557061.html|title=Singapore's death penalty: Is there room for compassion?|website=Yahoo News|date=8 August 2022|access-date=10 August 2022}}</ref>
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While no information is issued on the race and ethnicity of death row inmates, it was noted in 2021, during an appeal from a number of Malay death row inmates who alleged racism on the part of the government, that there were a large number of Malays among those on death row, with only handfuls of other minority races. Between 2010 and 2021, Malays made up 66 of the 120 prosecuted for capital drug offences, with 76% of cases concluding with the death sentence. 50 out of 77 people sentenced to death between 2010 and 2021 were Malays, with a remaining 15 Indians, 10 Chinese and two from other races.<ref>{{cite news |date=31 August 2021 |title=Singapore Malay death row inmates file historic suit accusing govt of racial bias |website=Malaysia Now |url=https://www.malaysianow.com/news/2021/08/31/singapore-malay-death-row-inmates-file-historic-suit-accusing-govt-of-racial-bias/ |access-date=2 November 2021}}</ref> Since 2010, of all the 77 sentenced to death, there were 14 Malaysians being condemned to death row, with eleven of them ethnic Indians, two Malays and one Chinese.<ref>{{cite news |date=29 April 2022 |title=Five hanged in last decade, nine more in line: A look at Malaysians facing gallows in Singapore for drug offences |website=Malay Mail |url=https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2022/04/29/five-hanged-in-last-decade-nine-more-in-line-a-look-at-malaysians-facing-ga/2056200 |access-date=29 April 2022}}</ref>
 
Former chief executioner, Darshan Singh, who died from Covid 19 complications on 31 October 2021,<ref>{{Cite web |last=VIJAYAN |first=K. C. |title=Former prisons hangman Darshan Singh dies after Covid-19 infection, Latest Singapore News - The New Paper |url=https://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/former-prisons-hangman-darshan-singh-dies-after-covid-19-infection |access-date=2024-04-21 |website=www.tnp.sg |language=en}}</ref> stated that he had executed more than 850 people during his service, which began in 1959. When conducting the executions, he would use the phrase: "I am going to send you to a better place than this. God bless you." At one point, Singh executed 18 people on one day; these 18 people were among the 58 rioters who [[Pulau Senang prison riots|killed four prison officers]] while they were serving their jail terms in a [[Pulau Senang]] island prison in 1963. Singh also said that he has hanged seven people within 90 minutes; these seven men were the culprits of the 1971 [[Gold Bars triple murders]], in which a businessman and illegal gold trader was killed together with his driver and colleague over a total of 120 gold bars.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Shadrake |first=Alan |date=28 October 2005 |title=Nguyen executioner revealed |work=The Australian |publisher=News Limited |location=Surry Hills, NSW, Australia |url=http://www.news.com.au/story/0%2C10117%2C17057851-2%2C00.html |url-status=dead |access-date=2007-12-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511151812/http://www.news.com.au/story/0%2C10117%2C17057851-2%2C00.html |archive-date=11 May 2008 |quote=Mr Singh joined the British colonial prison service in the mid-1950s after arriving from Malaysia. When the long-established British hangman Mr Seymour retired, Singh, then 27, volunteered for the job. He was attracted by the bonus payment for executions. Mr Singh is credited with being the only executioner in the world to single-handedly hang 18 men in one day -- three at a time. They had been convicted of murdering four prison officers during a riot on the penal island of Pulau Senang in 1963. He also hanged seven condemned men within 90 minutes a few years later. They had been convicted in what became known as the "gold bars murders", in which a merchant and two employees were killed during a robbery. One of the most controversial executions in his career was the 1991 hanging of a young Filipina maid, [[Flor Contemplacion]], who was convicted of the murder of a co-worker, Delia Maga, and her four-year-old son, on what many believed was shaky evidence. He carries out the executions wearing simple casual clothes, often just a T-shirt, shorts, sports shoes and knee-length socks. To mark his 500th hanging four years ago, four of his former colleagues turned up at his home to celebrate the event with a couple of bottles of Dom Perignon. Mr Singh boasts that he has never botched an execution. "Mr Seymour taught him just how long the drop should be according to weight and height and exactly where the knot should be placed at the back of the neck," his colleague said. "Death has always come instantaneously and painlessly. In that split second, at precisely 6 am, it's all over." }}</ref>
 
Executions peaked between 1994 and 1998; Singapore had the second highest per-capita execution rate in the world during this period, estimated by the [[United Nations]] to be 13.83 executions annually per one million people,<ref>{{Cite web |title=para 68 UNODC.org (page 18) |url=http://www.unodc.org/pdf/crime/10_commission/10e.pdf}}</ref> just behind [[Turkmenistan]] with 14.92. Since then, executions have become far less common, with some years having no executions at all. For example, no one was executed in 2012 and 2013, and two persons were executed in 2014. Nevertheless, in the late 2010s, the number of executions has started to increase again: in 2018, 13 people were executed, the most since at least 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Death Penalty in Singapore |url=https://www.deathpenaltyworldwide.org/country-search-post.cfm?country=Singapore |access-date=2018-12-27 |website=www.deathpenaltyworldwide.org}}</ref> and four people (including two unreported executions) were hanged in 2019. No one has been executed from the start of 2020 to August 2020, due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore]]. The first person to be sentenced to death during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore was Punithan Genasan, a 37-year-old Malaysian who was also the first to be sentenced to death on 15 May 2020 via a remote court hearing on [[Zoom Video Communications|Zoom]].<ref>{{cite news|date=15 May 2020|title=Mastermind who recruited and gave instructions to drug couriers gets death penalty|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/mastermind-who-recruited-and-gave-instructions-to-drug-couriers-gets-death|website=The Straits Times|access-date=31 October 2022}}</ref> Punithan, who was convicted of drug trafficking, was later acquitted on 31 October 2022 upon appeal.<ref>{{cite news|date=31 October 2022|title=Man sentenced to death via Zoom for drug trafficking acquitted after appeal with new evidence|url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/punithan-genasan-man-sentenced-death-zoom-drug-trafficking-acquitted-3034316|website=CNA|access-date=31 October 2022}}</ref> The first fully virtual court hearing of a capital case was made via [[Zoom Video Communications|Zoom]] on 23 April 2020, when the [[Court of Appeal of Singapore|Court of Appeal]] [[acquittal|acquitted]] 27-year-old Singaporean drug suspect [[Mohammad Azli Mohammad Salleh]] and dismissed both his drug charge and his death sentence.<ref>{{Cite news|date=23 April 2020|title=Man on death row for helping to traffic drugs acquitted in Court of Appeal's first fully virtual hearing|url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/drug-trafficking-man-on-death-row-acquitted-court-of-appeal-766396|website=CNA|access-date=1 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=23 April 2020|title=Apex court acquits man of drug trafficking, spares him from death penalty|url=https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/apex-court-acquits-man-drug-trafficking-spares-him-death-penalty|website=TODAY|access-date=1 November 2022}}</ref>
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* 1973: [[Chow Kim Hoong]], a Malaysian-born [[statelessness|stateless person]] found guilty of the 1969 killing of his brother's fiancée and sentenced to death in July 1970. Chow managed to appeal for a re-trial but the death sentence was reinstated in November 1971. Chow was hanged on 3 August 1973.
* 1975: Andrew Chou Hock Guan, David Chou Hock Heng, Peter Lim Swee Guan, Alex Yau Hean Thye, Stephen Francis, Richard James, and Konesekaram Nagalingam, who were hanged on 28 February 1975 for the [[Gold Bars triple murders]].<ref>{{cite news|date=16 May 2016|title=Guilty As Charged: Seven who killed for 120 gold bars hanged|newspaper=The Straits Times|location=Singapore|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/guilty-as-charged-seven-who-killed-for-120-gold-bars-hanged|url-status=live|access-date=16 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160516054911/http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/guilty-as-charged-seven-who-killed-for-120-gold-bars-hanged|archive-date=2016-05-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Tok |first=Cherylyn |title=Gold Bar Murders |url=http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_1753_2011-02-14.html |publisher=National Library Board, Singapore |website=Infopedia |access-date=20 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313045835/http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_1753_2011-02-14.html |archive-date=13 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=True Files S1|url=https://www.mewatch.sg/en/series/true-files-s1/ep2/366911 |website=meWATCH |access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref>
* 1975: [[Ismail bin U. K. Abdul Rahman]], a Singaporean labourer found guilty of murdering a one-armed man and sentenced to death. Ismail was hanged on 28 February 1975.
*1975: [[Chelliah Silvanathan]], a Hai Lok San gang member who was hanged on 11 April 1975 for the murder of a fellow gang member.
*1975: [[Lim Kim Huat]] and [[Neoh Bean Chye]], the two Malaysian gunmen found guilty of shooting and killing wine shop proprietor Chew Liew Tea and hanged on 27 June 1975.
*1975: [[Liew Ah Chiew]], a 19-year-old National Serviceman convicted of murdering his platoon commander Hor Koon Seng and hanged on 29 November 1975.
*1976: Pehn Kwan Jin, a Singaporean seaman who was found guilty of murdering [[Bras Basah coffeeshop murder|Tan Eng Kim]] and hanged on 16 April 1976.
*1976: K. Vijayan Krishnan, a Malaysian labourer who was hanged on 30 ApriApril 1976 for the 1973 [[murder of Ahora Murthi Krishnasamy]] at [[Kampong Kapor Constituency|Kampong Kapor]].
*1977: [[Nadarajah Govindasamy]], a transport company owner charged with the violent murder of his daughter's fiance Mohamed Azad Mohamed Hussein. Nadarajah was found guilty and given the death penalty in August 1975, and he was later put to death on 28 January 1977.
*1979: [[Visuvanathan Thillai Kannu]], a Malaysian labourer who was found guilty of murdering a road sweeper in 1976. Visuvanathan was hanged on 25 May 1979.
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*1982: [[Kalidass Sinnathamby Narayanasamy]], a lance corporal of the [[Singapore Armed Forces]] who molested and killed his seven-year-old niece. He was sentenced to hang for murder on 27 March 1980 and lost his appeal in May 1982, and sometime afterwards, he was executed.
* 1982: [[Haw Tua Tau]], a hawker who was found guilty of murdering Phoon Ah Leong and Hu Yuen Keng back in 1976. After losing his appeals, Haw was hanged sometime in 1982.
* 1983: [[Vadivelu Kathikesan murders|Vadivelu Kathikesan]], a Singaporean charged with the murders of two men between June and October 1979. Vadivelu was sentenced to hang in March 1982 for the October 1979 murder of cigarette stall owner Mohamed Dawood Abdul Jaffar, and he was hanged on an unknown date after the loss of his appeal in January 1983. His other charge of killing Abdul Rahiman Adnan in June 1979 was withdrawn after his conviction for the Mohamed Dawood murder.
* 1984: Ong Hwee Kuan, Ong Chin Hock and Yeo Ching Boon were hanged on 24 February 1984 for the robbery, kidnapping and murder of a policeman, [[Lee Kim Lai]], on 25 April 1978. The trio were also responsible for the murder of a taxi driver Chew Theng Hin on the same night Lee was killed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mewatch.sg/en/series/true-files-s1/ep9/366929|title=True Files S1|website=meWATCH|access-date=2020-05-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/guilty-as-charged-three-friends-who-wanted-to-become-robbers-killed-2-men-to|date=15 May 2016 |title=Guilty As Charged: Three friends who wanted to become robbers killed 2 men to get a gun|website=The Straits Times|access-date=27 October 2020}}</ref>
*1986: Sim Min Teck, one of the three perpetrators of the 1980 [[Jurong fishing port murders]], which he committed when he was 18. He was sentenced to death for murder in March 1985 and lost his appeal in July 1986, before he was hanged.
* 1986: [[Ramu Annadavascan]], a lorry driver who used a gardening rake to assault a 45-year-old boilerman before burning him alive, was hanged on 19 September 1986.
*1986: Wong Foot Ling, who was hanged on 19 September 1986 for murdering his lover [[Murder of Khor Gek Hong|Khor Gek Hong]]
*1988: [[Lau Ah Kiang]], a jobless Singaporean who killed his adoptive niece Ong Ai Siok. He was sentenced to death in February 1986 and lost his appeal in January 1988 before he was hanged.
* 1988: Adrian Lim, Tan Mui Choo, and Hoe Kah Hong, the three perpetrators of the 1981 [[Toa Payoh ritual murders]], were hanged on 25 November 1988.
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*1992: [[Hensley Anthony Neville]], an Eurasian Singaporean found guilty of the 1984 rape and murder of 19-year-old Lim Hwee Huang. He fled to Malaysia after killing Lim, but was caught in March 1987 and hanged on 28 August 1992 after a six-day trial hearing. He was also the suspect of an unsolved double killing at Malaysia.
* 1992: Vasavan Sathiadew and his two Thai accomplices - Phan Khenapin and Wan Pathong - were hanged on 23 October 1992 for the [[Murder of Frankie Tan|1984 murder of Frankie Tan]].<ref>{{Cite AV media |title=True Files S2 - EP6: Jealousy knows no limit |date=5 February 2016 |publisher=Channel 5 |via=meWATCH |url=https://www.mewatch.sg/en/series/true-files-s2/ep6/367411|access-date=2020-08-14}}</ref>
*1992: Tan Joo Cheng, who was found guilty of the 1987 [[murder of Lee Juay Heng]], and sentenced to hang in 1990. Tan was executed since the loss of his appeal in 1992.
*1993: Mohamed Bachu Miah and Mohamed Mahmuduzzaman Khan, the two Bangladeshi workers who were found guilty of murdering a compatriot [[Murder of Mohamed Shafiqul Islam|Mohamed Shafiqul Islam]] in 1988. Both Mohamed Bachu and Mahmuduzzaman were hanged on 23 July 1993.
*1993: 18-year-old [[Maksa Tohaiee]], a Singaporean cleaner, was charged with murdering 38-year-old [[Italians|Italian]] housewife Clementina Curci on 10 October 1990 and executed three years later on 26 November 1993.
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* 1996: [[Zainal Abidin Abdul Malik]], a 29-year-old Singaporean who used an axe to murder 47-year-old police officer [[Boo Tiang Huat]]. He was convicted for murder and hanged on 30 August 1996.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2 September 1996|url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19960902-1.2.47.4 |title=Trafficker, murderers hanged |newspaper=The Straits Times}}</ref>
* 1996: [[Teo Kim Hong]], a Singaporean national, hanged on 30 August 1996 for stabbing fellow prostitute and Malaysian Ching Bee Ing to death at the [[Teck Lim Road]] brothel they both worked for in 1995.<ref>{{Cite news |date=31 August 1996|url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/newpaper19960831-1.2.29 |title=They paid for their crimes with their lives |newspaper=New Paper}}</ref>
* 1996: [[Thongbai Naklangdon]], a Thai welder who was found guilty of murdering his friend Suk Malasri in June 1995 and sentenced to death. Thongbai was hanged on 30 August 1996.
* 1997: [[Pracha Thanomnin]], a Thai illegal worker, was hanged on 10 January 1997 for the 1995 [[murder of Lee Kok Yin]], a 47-year-old taxi driver.<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 January 1997|url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19970112-1.2.35.9|title=Man who murdered taxi-driver hanged|newspaper=The Straits Times}}</ref>
* 1997: Khampun Sriyotha and Samlee Prathumtree, the two Thai workers found guilty of murdering their fellow countryman [[Murder of Somwang Yapapha|Somwang Yapapha]] during a sledgehammer attack, and hanged on 4 July 1997.
* 1998: [[Mathavakannan Kalimuthu#May 1998 executions of Asogan and Selvar|Asogan Ramesh Ramachandren and Selvar Kumar Silvaras]] were hanged on 29 May 1998 for the 1996 murder of a gangster.
* 1998: [[Jimmy Chua Hwa Soon]], a former army sergeant who killed his sister-in-law and slashed his nephew. He was sentenced to death for murder in April 1997 and lost his appeal in February 1998.
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* 2007: [[Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi]] and [[Okeke Nelson Malachy]], two Nigerians hanged on 26 January 2007 for smuggling diamorphine.
* 2017: [[Pannir Selvam Pranthaman]], a Malaysian on death row since 2017 for trafficking of heroin in 2014
* 2020: [[Roshdi Abdullah Altway]], a Singaporean convicted of trafficking 78.77g of diamorphine and sentenced to death in 2020. Roshdi was previously sentenced to hang in 1994 for the [[Roshdi Abdullah Altway#Murder of Inspector Rajab Mohamed (1993)|murder of a CNB inspector]] before he appealed and successfully reduced his death sentence to ten years' jail for manslaughter
* 2022: [[Abdul Kahar Othman]], a Singaporean who was executed on 30 March 2022 for trafficking 66.77g of diamorphine in 2010.
* 2022: [[Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam]], a Malaysian executed on 27 April 2022 at 6:00 am for trafficking of heroin in 2009
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* 1976: [[Sha Bakar Dawood]], a Singaporean national, hanged on 3 September 1976 for the use of a firearm with intent to cause injury, after shooting three people at a brothel and then opening fire on police at [[Geylang|Thiam Siew Avenue]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 September 1976|url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19760903-1.2.82 |title=Bakar goes to gallows today |newspaper=The Straits Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Straits Times]]|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/guilty-as-charged-lim-ban-lim-was-most-wanted-gunman-in-singapore-and|title=Guilty As Charged: Lim Ban Lim was most wanted gunman in Singapore and Malaysia in 1960s|date=14 May 2016}}</ref>
* 1977: [[Talib bin Haji Hamzah]], a Singaporean national, hanged on 28 January 1977 for the use of a firearm with intent to cause injury, after being an accomplice to two jewellers shop robberies in 1974 during which firearms were discharged.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 January 1977|url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19770129-1.2.43 |title=Armed holdup gang man hanged |newspaper=The Straits Times}}</ref>
* 1979: [[Lee Keng Guan]], [[Wong Loke Fatt]] and [[Ho Joo Huat]], all Singaporean nationals, hanged on 11 May 1979 for the joint enterprise of the use of a firearm with intent to cause injury, after robbing businessman Low Meng How and then firing 2 bullets from a [[revolver]] at Low's nephew on [[Marine Parade|Amber Road]] in October 1974.<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 May 1979|url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19790512-1.2.7 |title=Three robbers hanged |newspaper=The Straits Times}}</ref>
*1980: [[Chang Bock Eng]] and [[Tay Cher Kiang]], who were both given the death penalty in August 1977 for using a revolver during an armed robbery at a paint shop. Both Chang and Tay were hanged on 9 May 1980.<ref>{{Cite news |date=27 August 1977|url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19770827-1.2.20 |title=Gun used in shop robbery: Two men get death penalty |newspaper=The Straits Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=10 May 1980 |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/beritaharian19800510-1.2.66 |title=Dua lelaki jalani hukuman gantung di Changi
|newspaper=Berita Harian|language=Malay}}</ref>