Singapore appeal court upholds death sentence for intellectually disabled man

The execution of Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam could take place within days after his final appeal was dismissed Singapore's top court has dismissed a mentally disabled Malaysian man's last-ditch appeal against a death sentence, with his family saying they were "devastated" and "shocked" by the ruling. Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam was arrested in 2009 for trafficking a small amount of heroin into the city-state, which has some of the world's toughest drugs laws, and handed a then mandatory death sent...