Capital crimes are: murder, treason, offences against the President, illegal possession of arms, kidnapping and causing an innocent person to be executed by bearing false witness.

Capital crimes are: murder, treason, offences against the President, illegal possession of arms, kidnapping and causing an innocent person to be executed by bearing false witness.
In Singapore the death penalty is mandatory for the trafficking of 15 grams of heroin, 30 grams of cocaine and 500 grams of cannabis. Under Singapore law, anyone caught with these amounts is presumed to be trafficking. Moreover, in 2001 Singapore’s highest court ruled that the act of helping dealers pack heroin into smaller sachets for sale is as bad as selling the drug. So anyone who does the packing faces a death sentence.
The majority of the 408 people known to have been executed in Singapore between 1991 and October 28, 2003 are believed to have been convicted of drug trafficking offences, according to Amnesty. This made the Asian city state, with a population of 4 million, the country with the highest per capita rate of executions.
Singapore’s authorities do not publish information about the death penalty. Capital punishment on the island has long been shrouded in secrecy, news of executions is only released after they have taken place and there is little information about the whole issue to fuel public debate.
Executions are carried out on Friday mornings at dawn. Relatives are generally informed a week previous to the scheduled date. Official statistics on executions were unusually released in 2003, after Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong was asked the number of executions during a BBC interview. He said he did not know because he had “more important issues to worry about.” Government then released statistics showing that 28 people had been put to death in 2002 and 27 in 2001. There were 21 executions in 2000. At least 14 people were hanged in 2003, including at least 6 for drug-trafficking, according to reports compiled by HOC.