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The Star

Singapore has executed 38-year-old Malaysian Pannir Selvam Pranthaman for smuggling drugs into the island republic in 2014.
Singapore-based non-governmental organisation Transformative Justice Collective member Rocky Howe confirmed the execution on Wednesday.
“Pannir Selvam has been executed this morning,” he said.
He was convicted by the High Court on May 2, 2017, for importing not less than 51.84 grams of diamorphine into Singapore in 2014 and was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty.
The Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal on February 9, 2018, and his clemency petition to the president of Singapore was rejected.
Pannir Selvam was granted a stay of execution on two occasions.

The first was in May 2019 as he intended to challenge the rejection of his clemency petition.
He also sought to challenge the public prosecutor’s decision not to issue a certificate of substantive help.
The second stay was granted in February 2025 pending determination of a post-appeal application for a stay, and the application was later rejected on September 5.
This is the second execution of a Malaysian national in Singapore within two weeks.
It followed the execution of K. Datchinamurthy on September 25.
In July this year, two Malaysians were also executed for drug offences.
This story was first published by The Star


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This is the second execution of a Malaysian national for a drug offence in the city state within two weeks


This is the second execution of a Malaysian national for a drug offence in the city state within two weeks.


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Singapore executes Malaysian diamorphine trafficker Pannir Selvam

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}This is the second execution of a Malaysian national for a drug offence in the city state within two weeks

This is the second execution of a Malaysian national for a drug offence in the city state within two weeks