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
- JUNE 10, 2010MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE DEATH ROW CASE: KL URGED TO ACT
a Singapore lawyer who represented a Malaysian sentenced to hang in Singapore for drug trafficking urged the Malaysian government to intervene and take the case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
- MAY 14, 2010MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: MANS DEATH PENALTY APPEAL DISMISSED
Chief Justice Keong and Justices Phang and Rajah of Singapore's Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal of Malaysian national Yong Vui Kong, 21, against his November 2009 death sentence for trafficking 47 grammes of heroin in June 2008.
- MAY 10, 2010SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE JUSTIFIES MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG TRAFFICKERS
Singapore's law minister K Shanmugam justified imposing the mandatory death penalty for drug
- FEBRUARY 18, 2010MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: SINGAPOREAN TO HANG FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Judge Datuk Mohd Zawawi Salleh of the High Court in Johor Baharu...
- FEBRUARY 4, 2010MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: TWO MALAYSIANS SENTENCE TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
two Malaysians, including a woman, were sentenced to death in Singapore for drug trafficking.
- JANUARY 8, 2010BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESHI WORKER TO HANG IN SINGAPORE FOR MURDER
High Court Judge Kan Ting Chiu of Singapore's High Court sentenced Bangladeshi construction worker Kamrul Hasan Abdul Quddus, 35, to death for murder.
- JANUARY 1, 2010SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
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.
- DECEMBER 3, 2009MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: COURT GRANTS MALAYSIAN’S APPLICATION FOR STAY OF EXECUTION
the Singapore High Court granted a Malaysian man’s application for a stay of execution in what may be the first of its kind.
- OCTOBER 7, 2009MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Malaysian citizens Esma Faizul Zainul Nor, 38, and Mohamad Fazli Ismail...
Malaysian citizens Esma Faizul Zainul Nor, 38, and Mohamad Fazli Ismail...
- JUNE 30, 2009SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING HIS LOVER
a Singapore court sentenced a man to hang for killing his Chinese lover in June 2006.
- MAY 25, 2009SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: MAN TO HANG FOR THROWING WIFE FROM 13TH FLOOR
an odd job worker in Singapore was sentenced to hang after being found guilty of hurling his wife from the 13th floor of an HDB block.
- APRIL 8, 2009SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: BROTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Singapore's High Court sentenced two brothers to death for murdering an elderly woman during a robbery, a court official and news reports said. Ismil Kadar...
- MARCH 12, 2009SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: MAN TO HANG FOR MURDERING 15-YEAR-OLD STEPDAUGHTER
Ong Pang Siew, 46, was found guilty of murdering 15-year-old Ong Pan Hui on 20 October 2007 in Marsiling and was sentenced to death in Singapore.
- JANUARY 30, 2009MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Singapore national Kelvyn John, 29, was sentenced to death by judge Abdu Samah Nordin...
Singapore national Kelvyn John, 29, was sentenced to death by judge Abdu Samah Nordin...
- JANUARY 14, 2009SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: STOP EXECUTIONS: AMNESTY
human rights watchdog Amnesty International asked Singapore to make public 'comprehensive information' about its use of the death penalty and again urged the government to stop executions.
- JANUARY 9, 2009SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
just minutes after his execution, the liver...
just minutes after his execution, the liver...
JANUARY 9, 2009SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: 'ONE-EYED DRAGON' HANGED
the man dubbed the One-eyed Dragon, Tan Chor Jin, 42, was executed on at Changi Prison in Singapore
- JANUARY 1, 2009SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
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.
- DECEMBER 30, 2008SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
a 20 year old Ghanaian was sentenced to death in Singapore for trafficking 2.6 kgs of cannabis
a 20 year old Ghanaian was sentenced to death in Singapore for trafficking 2.6 kgs of cannabis
- DECEMBER 19, 2008SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: NONOI'S STEPDAD HANGED
Mohammed Ali Johari, a murder convict, was hanged at Changi Prison in Singapore, police said.
- NOVEMBER 14, 2008MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY SINGAPORE COURT FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
a 20-year-old Malaysian was sentenced to death by a Singapore court for a drug trafficking offence, the local media reported.
- NOVEMBER 4, 2008MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: FEDERAL COURT QUASHES MAN'S DEATH SENTENCE
a Singaporean thanked three Malaysian Federal Court judges for sentencing him to 18 years' jail for shooting a 12 year old girl seven years ago.
- FEBRUARY 18, 2008MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
the Court of Appeal in Singapore rejected the appeal of three Malaysian citizens...
the Court of Appeal in Singapore rejected the appeal of three Malaysian citizens...
- JANUARY 30, 2008SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Justice V K Rajah of the Singapore High Court dismissed
Justice V K Rajah of the Singapore High Court dismissed
- JANUARY 1, 2008SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
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.
- DECEMBER 18, 2007SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Singapore voted against the Resolution on a Moratorium...
Singapore voted against the Resolution on a Moratorium...
- OCTOBER 23, 2007SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE. TOUGHER ANTI-TERRORISM LAW ENACTED
Singapore’s Parliament passed the Suppression of Bombings Act - with a new anti-terror law
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2007SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING CHILD
a Singaporean man was sentenced to death after he was found guilty of killing his two year old stepdaughter by submerging her in a bucket of water, local media said.
- JUNE 7, 2007MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
ROBBERY RESULTS IN DEATH PENALTY
Singapore national, Lim Seng, 36 and his Malaysian accomplice, Wang Hup Huat, 48, were sentenced to death in the Johor Baru High Court in Malaysia for the 2001 shooting of a passerby during a robbery.
- MAY 22, 2007SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE “ONE-EYED DRAGON" GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE
Tan Chor Jin, 41, the "one-eyed dragon", was given the death penalty for shooting nightclub owner Lim Hock Soon, 40, at his Serangoon flat in Singapore last February.