Singapore activist vow to persist in campaign against death penalty

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The execution of a father of two over 1kg of marijuana has emboldened the anti-death-penalty campaign in this notoriously tightly controlled city-state.

When family and friends paid a final visit to Shanmugam Murugesu on the eve of his execution last Friday, he urged them to press on with a rejuvenated campaign to end the death penalty in Singapore.
There were eight other convicts waiting to be hanged at Changi Prison and he did not want them to die in isolation, one of the visitors recalled him saying.

Murugesu, 38, a former soldier, jet ski champion and divorced father of two, was executed for trafficking 1,029.8g of marijuana, yet civil rights activists who had mounted the futile attempt to save him have vowed to fight on despite admitting it will be an uphill battle.

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We all know aWol had more than a kilo on him more than a hundres times in his life.