Singapore
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 4
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 7
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Capital crimes are: murder, treason, offenses against...
- News items in the archive
- 349
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Singapore is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 4 executions in the country, against 7 the year before. The archive holds 349 news items on Singapore, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- MAY 22, 2000SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Chan Choon Wai, a 20-year old Malaysian electrician,...
Chan Choon Wai, a 20-year old Malaysian electrician, failed to have his death sentence overturned by the Court of Appeal
- APRIL 13, 2000SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs, Professor S
The Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs, Professor S
- MARCH 14, 2000SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A fifty two year old housewife, Julaiha Begum, her...
A fifty two year old housewife, Julaiha Begum, her lover Loganatha Venkatesan, and another hired killer, Chandran Rajagopal, were all given the death sentence by the High Court for carrying out a plot to kill Begum's husband, T
- MARCH 3, 2000SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs, Professor S
The Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs, Professor S
- JANUARY 14, 2000SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Lee Chin Seah, an unemployed 42-year-old Chinese man,...
Lee Chin Seah, an unemployed 42-year-old Chinese man, was sentenced to death by the High Court for drug trafficking
- JANUARY 1, 2000SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: murder, treason, offenses against...
Capital crimes are: murder, treason, offenses against the President, illegal possession of arms, and causing an innocent person to be executed by bearing false witness
- NOVEMBER 3, 1999SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
On November 3, Ambassador Mahbubani, speaking at the...
On November 3, Ambassador Mahbubani, speaking at the Third Committee of the General Assembly (human rights) under item 116a (death penalty), said, "
- OCTOBER 8, 1999SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
On October 8, Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani, speaking...
On October 8, Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani, speaking at the Third Committee of the General Assembly on item 106 (social development), referring to the European Union's resolution on the death penalty, said, "We should respect their right to abolish the de
- JULY 22, 1999SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Singapore signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed...
Singapore signed the letter, dated 22 July 1999, addressed to the President of the Economic and Social Council, in which the retentionist countries dissociated from the Commission on Human Rights resolution 1999/61 on the question of the death penalty
- JULY 1, 1999SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
In July, Shaiful Edham Adam, 22, and Norishyam Mohamed...
In July, Shaiful Edham Adam, 22, and Norishyam Mohamed Ali, 26, convicted of killing Jordanka Apostolova, 26, a young Bulgarian woman while robbing her, were hanged in Changi prison
- JUNE 25, 1999SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
On June 25, convicted drug traffickers Cheong Chuan...
On June 25, convicted drug traffickers Cheong Chuan Peng, 36, and Chua Gin Boon, 34, were hanged at Changi Prison
- JUNE 1, 1999SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
In June, Aziz Abdul Kadir, caught with more than 10kg...
In June, Aziz Abdul Kadir, caught with more than 10kg of cannabis in his taxi, lost his appeal against the death penalty
- MARCH 19, 1999SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
On March 19, Singapore hanged 3 men, 2 Malaysians and...
On March 19, Singapore hanged 3 men, 2 Malaysians and a Singaporean, for possession of a small amount of the drug diamorphine and a about 2kg of cannabis
- MARCH 5, 1999SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
On March 5, Singapore hanged 3 men for drug trafficking
On March 5, Singapore hanged 3 men for drug trafficking
- MARCH 4, 1999SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
On March 4, Melody Zacarias-Dass a 36-year-old Filipino...
On March 4, Melody Zacarias-Dass a 36-year-old Filipino woman, who was suspected of having killed her sons, was charged with two counts of murder and could face the death penalty
- FEBRUARY 26, 1999SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
On February 26, Singapore hanged 3 people, 2 men and...
On February 26, Singapore hanged 3 people, 2 men and a woman, for strangling and stabbing a woman to death
- FEBRUARY 25, 1999SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
On February 25, the High Court condemned to death odd-job...
On February 25, the High Court condemned to death odd-job laborer Mohamed Ibrahim Moulana Abdul Kader, 35, but his brother, bartender Mohamed Makar Moulana Abdul Kader, 24, was acquitted
- JANUARY 15, 1999SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
On January 15, Singapore hanged two men for drug trafficking
On January 15, Singapore hanged two men for drug trafficking
- JANUARY 1, 1999SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: murder, treason, offenses against...
Capital crimes are: murder, treason, offenses against the President, illegal possession of arms, and causing an innocent person to be executed by bearing false witness