Outcry as Singapore executes man with learning difficulties over drugs offence

Campaigners decry 'broken system' in Singapore that disproportionately punishes drug mules rather than those who coerce them into work A man with learning difficulties has been executed in Singapore for attempting to smuggle a small amount of heroin, despite repeated pleas for his life to be spared, in a case campaigners have described as a "tragic miscarriage of justice". Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, a Malaysian national, was arrested in 2009, aged 21, for attempting to carry 43g of heroin - abo...