KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 19 -- The Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) has issued an urgent appeal to the Singapore government to halt the execution of Malaysian Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, who is scheduled to be hanged tomorrow for drug trafficking.
Pannir, 36, was convicted in 2017 for acting as a drug courier and handed the mandatory death penalty under Singapore's Misuse of Drugs Act. He had claimed to have cooperated with authorities by providing information on the actual trafficker but was denied a Certificate of Substantive Assistance that could have spared him from capital punishment.
His clemency application was also rejected by the President of Singapore, leaving Pannir with no further legal recourse.
In a statement today, the CLA c...