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
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A 24-year-old Indonesian maid, set to hang in Singapore...
A 24-year-old Indonesian maid, set to hang in Singapore on charges of stabbing dead her employer, won a reprieve when a court reduced her sentence to life in prison because she had been abused
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Harith Gary Lee, a man convicted of pushing his girlfriend...
Harith Gary Lee, a man convicted of pushing his girlfriend from the 10th floor of a block of flats in Choa Chu Kang, Singapore, lost his appeal against being hanged
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Chew Seow Leng, a drug addict who refused to give evidence...
Chew Seow Leng, a drug addict who refused to give evidence in his defence, was sentenced to hang in Singapore for heroin trafficking
- JULY 26, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Australian national Nguyen Tuong Van made a brief appearance...
Australian national Nguyen Tuong Van made a brief appearance in a Singapore court as his lawyer appealed against a mandatory death sentence handed to him for trafficking in heroin
- JULY 26, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
a man named Raman Selvam Renganathan was hanged in Singapore for drug-related crime
a man named Raman Selvam Renganathan was hanged in Singapore for drug-related crime
- JUNE 27, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore...
It was reported that the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore would strive to save Sundarti Supriyanto, a 23 year old Indonesian female worker from Central Java who was due to face execution on July 6 in Singapore
- JUNE 11, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Tan Chee Wee, a 30 year old Malaysian who bludgeoned...
Tan Chee Wee, a 30 year old Malaysian who bludgeoned his friend's wife to death in 2003 was hanged in Changi Prison in Singapore
- MAY 21, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
a man named Soosainathan Dass Saminathan was hanged in Singapore for murder
a man named Soosainathan Dass Saminathan was hanged in Singapore for murder
- APRIL 16, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Harith Gary Lee alias Lee Cheng Thiam was sentenced...
Harith Gary Lee alias Lee Cheng Thiam was sentenced to death for murdering his girlfriend, Diana Teo Siew Peng, 32
- APRIL 12, 2004SingaporeDEATH 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.
- MARCH 24, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The following is an editorial entitled " Singapore's...
The following is an editorial entitled " Singapore's Grim Parade Of Death" published in the Australian pubilcation 'The Age'
- MARCH 23, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The Australian Coalition Against the Death Penalty...
The Australian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (ACADP) received hundreds of messages from Australians offering support for Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a Melbourne man sentenced to death in Singapore after being found guilty of smuggling almost 400 grams of
- MARCH 21, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
"I want my son to come home or to go to jail, please...
"I want my son to come home or to go to jail, please don't hang him, please," Kim Nguyen sobbed moments after a High Court judge in Singapore ordered the execution of 23-year-old Nguyen Tuong Van
- MARCH 20, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a sales executive from Melbourne,...
Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a sales executive from Melbourne, Australia, was sentenced to death after the Singapore High Court found him guilty of smuggling almost 400 grams of heroin
- MARCH 19, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Chinese national Jin Yugang, 37, was executed by hanging...
Chinese national Jin Yugang, 37, was executed by hanging in Changi Prison, Singapore, after being convicted of stabbing roommate and colleague Wang Hong to death after a violent quarrel at a restaurant on February 4, 2002
- MARCH 19, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Singapore authorities hanged Yen May Woen, a 37 year...
Singapore authorities hanged Yen May Woen, a 37 year old woman convicted of heroin trafficking, in the city-state's first drug execution in 2004
- MARCH 16, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The Indonesian government would help a number of migrant...
The Indonesian government would help a number of migrant workers facing the death penalty in the country Singapore by hiring lawyers to defend them, Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Jusuf Kalla said
- MARCH 15, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Zailani Ahmad, 35, was sentenced to death by a court...
Zailani Ahmad, 35, was sentenced to death by a court in Singapore after being convicted of killing Chi Tue Tiong, a 68-year-old caretaker, during a robbery on June 28, 2003
- JANUARY 30, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
36 percent of the people executed in Singapore between...
36 percent of the people executed in Singapore between 1993 and 2003 were foreigners, the Home Affairs Ministry said as it released a second defence of its capital punishment laws following a scathing Amnesty International report
- JANUARY 22, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Teo Yeow Chuah, a 31 year old man convicted of possessing 55
Teo Yeow Chuah, a 31 year old man convicted of possessing 55
- JANUARY 19, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Mohamed Raffiq Mohamed Aslam, 42, was sentenced to...
Mohamed Raffiq Mohamed Aslam, 42, was sentenced to death for murdering a former colleague, Madam Saratha Sangeo, 50
- JANUARY 16, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Singapore defended its death penalty system, slamming...
Singapore defended its death penalty system, slamming as "absurd" Amnesty International's criticism that the city state had the world's highest rate of executions in the world
- JANUARY 14, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Singapore has the highest execution rate in the world...
Singapore has the highest execution rate in the world relative to its population, outstripping China, Saudi Arabia and Sierra Leone, Amnesty International said in a report
- NOVEMBER 28, 2003SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International urged Singapore to halt criminal...
Amnesty International urged Singapore to halt criminal executions after an Australian man appeared in court on charges of trafficking in heroin - a crime that carries a mandatory death sentence
- NOVEMBER 27, 2003SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
An assurance that Michael McCrea, a 45 year old British...
An assurance that Michael McCrea, a 45 year old British national wanted in Singapore over a double murder, would not face the death penalty if he was extradited from Australia was not legally enforceable, the Australian Federal Court was told
- OCTOBER 3, 2003SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A poll by Internet portal Yahoo showed that majority...
A poll by Internet portal Yahoo showed that majority of Singaporeans support the death penalty
- OCTOBER 3, 2003SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Singapore prison officials hanged Arunprakash Vaithilingam,...
Singapore prison officials hanged Arunprakash Vaithilingam, 25, an Indian immigrant worker, for the murder of a flat mate on 22 December 2001
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2003SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Tan Chee Wee, 30, was sentenced to death by a court...
Tan Chee Wee, 30, was sentenced to death by a court in Singapore for murdering a woman during a house robbery on 9 January 2003
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2003SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Singapore executed two convicted Malaysian heroin traffickers...
Singapore executed two convicted Malaysian heroin traffickers despite protests by human rights group Amnesty International
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2003SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Singaporean national Yeo See Soon, charged with drug...
Singaporean national Yeo See Soon, charged with drug trafficking under Section 39(b) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, punishable with the death penalty, was overjoyed when High Court judge Datuk Arifin Jaka ruled that the charge be amended to one of posse