Singapore top executioner 'fired'

[Ambrosio Spinola]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4477012.stm

Singapore's chief executioner says he has been sacked after his identity was exposed by the media.
Darshan Singh's name and photo appeared in the Australian press just days before he was due to execute a Melbourne man for drugs smuggling.

Australia has appealed for clemency on behalf of Nguyen Tuong Van, who is scheduled to be hanged on 2 December.

Mr Singh, 74, is reported to have conducted more than 850 hangings in his 50-year career.

Political support

"They called me a few days ago and said I don't have to hang Nguyen and that I don't have to work anymore," Mr Singh told Reuters news agency.

"I think [the prison authorities] must be mad after seeing my pictures in the newspapers."

Australia's Sunday Telegraph newspaper said a new hangman was expected to be flown in to carry out Nguyen's execution.

The 25-year-old was convicted of trafficking 400 grams (14.11 ounces) of heroin in 2002 after he was arrested while on transit at Singapore's Changi airport.

Nguyen's case has aroused strong feelings in Australia and Prime Minister John Howard has intervened on his behalf.

Singapore has some of the harshest anti-drug laws in the world.

[Billy Score]

I always admired singapore's law system. The man retires a hero.

[Jimbo Gomez]

I always admired singapore's law system. The man retires a hero.


So did I. This valiant patriot terminated so much filth from his nation, he should be given a statue.

[Billy Score]

So did I. This valiant patriot terminated so much filth from his nation, he should be given a statue.
Very true. for this incite and our agreement i say heil Charles Martel, Hammer of the Phora!!

[Anima Eternae]

I would not like to be an executioner.

[Anarch]

The Australian media has been bitching and screaming about this stupid druggie Vietnamese Nguyen Tuong Van for weeks. Someone should give the executioner a medal.

[Ambrosio Spinola]

....was due to execute a Melbourne man for drugs smuggling.
....Australia has appealed for clemency on behalf of Nguyen Tuong Van

Yes, quite the "Melbourne man".

[Anarch]

Yes, quite the "Melbourne man".
Of course. I should know, he went to the same university one of my friends go to.

On a side note, what did Singapore give Australia for Christmas?

Slope on a rope.

[Ambrosio Spinola]

They did in fact execute the man...I would love to have such balls here in Europe.


Australia condemned Singapore for its decision to go ahead with the execution of a convicted drug trafficker from Melbourne, which was due to take place late last night.

"It is a most unfortunate, barbarous act," Philip Ruddock, the attorney-general, said as Nguyen Tuong Van, a former salesman, prepared to hang in Changi prison at dawn local time.

Nguyen, 25, was arrested at Singapore airport in 2002 while in transit from Cambodia to Australia.

He was carrying 14oz of heroin, enough, said the Singaporean authorities, to provide 26,000 "hits". He was given a mandatory death sentence for drug trafficking.

Nguyen is the latest in a string of Australians to have been arrested in south-east Asia for drugs offences. His case has prompted vigils, campaigns against the death penalty and pleas for an 11th hour reprieve by the government, church groups and trade unions.

Nguyen was due to be the first Australian to be executed overseas since 1993, when a barman from Sydney was hanged in Malaysia for heroin trafficking. Many Australians believe that Nguyen should have faced a long prison sentence rather than execution.

He claimed that he was carrying the drugs to Australia to help to pay off the debts of his twin brother, a heroin addict. The brothers were born in a refugee camp in Thailand after their mother fled from Vietnam. They later settled in Melbourne.

Singapore rejected five pleas for clemency for Nguyen from John Howard, the prime minister, who lobbied with other ministers.

In a last-minute concession, the Singaporean authorities allowed Nguyen to hold hands with his mother and brother during their final visit to the prison. The Australian government wanted Nguyen to be allowed to hug his mother, but grudgingly welcomed the gesture. "It's better than nothing," said Alexander Downer, the foreign minister.

[Jimbo Gomez]

I would love to have such balls.

sigmaterial :D

[Ambrosio Spinola]

sigmaterial :D

I shall be looking out on whatever you write and see if I can take some stuff out of context too :D :D

[Jimbo Gomez]

No problem amigo.

Oh look, I found another quote. :D

[Felix the Cat]

More "Australians" in Asia await execution (http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/more-australians-in-asia-await-execution/2005/12/04/1133631133049.html)

Three more Australians are reported to be on death row in Asia following the execution of Nguyen Tuong Van in Singapore on Friday.

A Sydney newspaper says Mai Cong Thanh, 46, from Melbourne, and Nguyen Van Chinh, 45, from NSW, are facing death in Vietnam after being convicted of conspiring to smuggle heroin into Australia.

It says they lost their appeals against the death sentence earlier this year, and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer is supporting calls for clemency.

The paper says that in the past Vietnam has commuted the death sentences of several Australians after pleas by the Australian government.

The other Australian, Henry Chhin, is in jail in China after being arrested in May last year and convicted last March of trying to send 270 grams of methamphetamine to Australia.

The paper says a Foreign Affairs Department spokeswoman has confirmed that Chhin is an Australian citizen and has been sentenced to death, but she says the sentence came with a two-year suspension, which means it will be reviewed in 2007 and his behaviour in that time will be taken into account.

[Anarch]

More "Australians" in Asia await execution (http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/more-australians-in-asia-await-execution/2005/12/04/1133631133049.html)
For each and everyone one of them, I shall shed crocodile tears upon their moment of death.

[Dances with Wolves]

Every one of those dinks were smuggling heroin to sell to White people. Fuck them. Hope their necks snap off and they are decapitated.

[Felix the Cat]

(LOL)

Nguyen’s twin found guilty in samurai sword attack (http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/12/4/asia/12771745&sec=asia)

SYDNEY: The brother of an Australian drug runner hanged in Singapore was convicted over a savage samurai sword attack but details of the case were suppressed amid fears they could jeopardise clemency appeals, it was reported yesterday.

The Australian daily reported Nguyen Khoa pleaded guilty to the attack last year and was given a three-year sentence, which the judge ordered be suspended partially because his twin brother was awaiting execution in Singapore.

The judge also banned publication of case details while Australian officials repeatedly appealed to Singapore not to hang Nguyen Tuong Van, who was caught trying to smuggle 400g of heroin through the city state.

The appeals were turned down and Nguyen, 25, was hanged at dawn on Friday, sparking outrage in Australia. He had maintained he was smuggling the drugs from Cambodia to pay off debts run up by Khoa.

The Australian said the debts included legal bills incurred by the court case that followed Khoa's involvement in a brawl between Asian and Pacific Islander youths in Melbourne in 1998.

It said the prosecution alleged that Khoa armed himself with a samurai sword and repeatedly slashed a 17-year-old Islander youth, leaving his victim confined to a wheelchair for a period and in need of plastic surgery.

The newspaper said Khoa was also a convicted drug trafficker and heroin user.

He was in Singapore last week for his brother's execution and expected to arrive back in Australia with his twin's body today.

Nguyen's lawyer said the dead man's friends would receive advice from beyond the grave in the form of letters written before his execution that will be distributed this week. – AFP

[Anima Eternae]

^lolololol

[Jimbo Gomez]

Oh God, they knew about the criminal tendencies of that family but chose to deceive the authorities of other nations. Disgusting.