Singapore is set to carry out its first execution of a woman, since 2004, found guilty of possession of about 30g of heroin. Saridewi Djamani was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty in 2018 for drug trafficking. The last woman to be executed was 36-year-old Yen May Woen, a hairdresser. She was hanged in 2004.  Chiara Sangiorgio, Amnesty International’s death …

Malaysia – The government has yet to determine a timetable for the repeal of the obligatory death sentence, according to Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Parliament and Law). He stated that several areas need to be refined, including the plan to establish a tribunal to consider instances where the obligatory death sentence has …