Hands Off Cain
NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·NOVEMBER 28, 2005
Singapore

SINGAPORE. AUTHORITIES SAY HANGMAN NOT SACKED

Singapore's prison authorities denied the city-state's chief executioner Darshan Singh had been sacked.

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Singapore's prison authorities denied the city-state's chief executioner Darshan Singh had been sacked.
"Darshan Singh has not been sacked and continues to be a contract officer engaged by the prisons department," a spokesman for the prisons department said.
Reports of Singh's dismissal had been reported by several newspapers the day before.
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  • (Sources: Australian Associated Press General News, 28/11/2005)