<p>Singapore on Wednesday hanged a man for trafficking drugs, authorities said, in the city-state's second execution in three weeks.</p>.<p>The man was convicted in 2019 of trafficking around 1.5 kilos (3.3 pounds) of cannabis, Kokila Annamalai of local rights group Transformative Justice Collective told <em>AFP</em>.</p>.<p>Singapore has some of the world's toughest anti-narcotics laws: trafficking more than 500 grams of cannabis can result in the death penalty.</p>.<p><strong>Also read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/indian-woman-gets-16-week-jail-term-for-physically-assaulting-domestic-helper-in-singapore-report-1217822.html" target="_blank">Indian woman gets 16-week jail term for physically assaulting domestic helper in Singapore: Report</a></strong></p>.<p>"A 36-year-old Singaporean man had his capital sentence carried out today at Changi Prison Complex," a spokesman for the city-state's prison service told <em>AFP</em>.</p>.<p>Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said in a separate statement that it would not release the name of the man to respect his family's wish for privacy.</p>.<p>"The person was accorded full due process under the law, and had access to legal counsel throughout the process," CNB added.</p>.<p>A last-ditch appeal to review the case and stay his execution was dismissed on Tuesday, Annamalai said.</p>.<p>Despite growing international calls to abolish the death penalty, Singapore insists that it is an effective deterrent against trafficking.</p>.<p>The Wednesday execution was the second in Singapore this year after Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, was hanged on April 26 for conspiracy to smuggle a kilo of cannabis.</p>.<p>Thirteen death row inmates have been hanged since Singapore resumed executions in March 2022 after a hiatus of more than two years.</p>.<p>Tangaraju Suppiah's execution sparked an international outcry, with rights groups pointing to "many flaws" in the case, but the Singapore government said his guilt was proven beyond a reasonable doubt.</p>.<p>Activists said they will continue to push for Singapore to abolish capital punishment as it has no proven deterrent effect on crime.</p>.<p>"The call to the Singapore government (to scrap the death penalty) has been loud and clear globally, and we will repeat the call: Singapore has to halt the executions," Amnesty International's executive director for Malaysia Katrina Jorene Maliamauv told reporters in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.</p>.<p>"They have to commute all existing death sentences."</p>.<p>Among those hanged last year was Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, whose execution sparked international condemnation because he was deemed to have a mental disability.</p>
<p>Singapore on Wednesday hanged a man for trafficking drugs, authorities said, in the city-state's second execution in three weeks.</p>.<p>The man was convicted in 2019 of trafficking around 1.5 kilos (3.3 pounds) of cannabis, Kokila Annamalai of local rights group Transformative Justice Collective told <em>AFP</em>.</p>.<p>Singapore has some of the world's toughest anti-narcotics laws: trafficking more than 500 grams of cannabis can result in the death penalty.</p>.<p><strong>Also read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/indian-woman-gets-16-week-jail-term-for-physically-assaulting-domestic-helper-in-singapore-report-1217822.html" target="_blank">Indian woman gets 16-week jail term for physically assaulting domestic helper in Singapore: Report</a></strong></p>.<p>"A 36-year-old Singaporean man had his capital sentence carried out today at Changi Prison Complex," a spokesman for the city-state's prison service told <em>AFP</em>.</p>.<p>Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said in a separate statement that it would not release the name of the man to respect his family's wish for privacy.</p>.<p>"The person was accorded full due process under the law, and had access to legal counsel throughout the process," CNB added.</p>.<p>A last-ditch appeal to review the case and stay his execution was dismissed on Tuesday, Annamalai said.</p>.<p>Despite growing international calls to abolish the death penalty, Singapore insists that it is an effective deterrent against trafficking.</p>.<p>The Wednesday execution was the second in Singapore this year after Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, was hanged on April 26 for conspiracy to smuggle a kilo of cannabis.</p>.<p>Thirteen death row inmates have been hanged since Singapore resumed executions in March 2022 after a hiatus of more than two years.</p>.<p>Tangaraju Suppiah's execution sparked an international outcry, with rights groups pointing to "many flaws" in the case, but the Singapore government said his guilt was proven beyond a reasonable doubt.</p>.<p>Activists said they will continue to push for Singapore to abolish capital punishment as it has no proven deterrent effect on crime.</p>.<p>"The call to the Singapore government (to scrap the death penalty) has been loud and clear globally, and we will repeat the call: Singapore has to halt the executions," Amnesty International's executive director for Malaysia Katrina Jorene Maliamauv told reporters in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.</p>.<p>"They have to commute all existing death sentences."</p>.<p>Among those hanged last year was Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, whose execution sparked international condemnation because he was deemed to have a mental disability.</p>