Singapore
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- parliamentary republic
- CONSTITUTION
- June 3, 1959, amended in 1965
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on English common law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, Parliament
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, the head appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister, other judges appointed by the president on the recommendation of the chief justice
RELIGIONS
42.5% Buddhists, 14.9% Muslims, 8.5% Taoists, 4.8% Catholics, other
From the country
- NOVEMBER 19, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The High Court dismissed an appeal by a Thai national,...
The High Court dismissed an appeal by a Thai national, who was sentenced to death in August 2001, for the murder of a taxi driver
- OCTOBER 26, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A gunman and a drug trafficker were hanged
A gunman and a drug trafficker were hanged
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Possession of a gun outside a gun club carries the...
Possession of a gun outside a gun club carries the death penalty
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Three men who stabbed cabby Koh Ngiap Yong, 42, to...
Three men who stabbed cabby Koh Ngiap Yong, 42, to death with a bayonet in August 2000 were sentenced to hang
- JULY 23, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The Thai Criminal Court sentenced to death a Singaporean,...
The Thai Criminal Court sentenced to death a Singaporean, Tan Wan Kiang, 40, together with a Hong Kong citizen and another from Thailand
- MAY 31, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The Thai Criminal Court sentenced to death two Singaporeans...
The Thai Criminal Court sentenced to death two Singaporeans convicted of attempting to smuggle heroin out of the country and related charges
- APRIL 27, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A Singapore man was sentenced to death for trafficking...
A Singapore man was sentenced to death for trafficking two kilograms of cannabis
- APRIL 17, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights on item...
Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights on item 17, the promotion and protection of human rights, See Chak Mun said that since 1997 similar draft resolutions on the question of the death penalty had been submitted to the Commission calling for a mor
- FEBRUARY 22, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A [unidentified] Singaporean national was executed...
A [unidentified] Singaporean national was executed in China in January for drug trafficking
- FEBRUARY 21, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Tay Chin Wah, 68, an elderly taxi driver who fired...
Tay Chin Wah, 68, an elderly taxi driver who fired four shots from his revolver at two men in 1995 was sentenced to hang
- FEBRUARY 16, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Singapore hanged 52 year old Julaiha Maniam along with...
Singapore hanged 52 year old Julaiha Maniam along with 2 younger men who had helped her to kill her husband, a retired police officer, so that she could then become the sole owner of their $1
- JANUARY 9, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Welder Saeng-Un Udom, 22, a Thai national was sentenced...
Welder Saeng-Un Udom, 22, a Thai national was sentenced by the High Court to hang for murdering Mr Weerasak Suebban, a fellow worker after an argument on June 23, 2000