KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 8 -- Singapore has executed Malaysian national Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, 38, for trafficking 51.84 grammes of heroin into the republic in 2014, according to his family and an activist quoted by the New Straits Times (NST).

"Yes, he has been hanged," Pannir's sister, Sangkari Pranthaman, and Singapore-based Transformative Justice Collective member Kirsten Han told NST yesterday.

It is Singapore's second execution of a Malaysian in less than two weeks, following another hanging on September 25.

Under the city-state's strict laws, trafficking more than 15g of heroin carries the mandatory death penalty.

Family lawyer N. Surendran said Singapore appeared to be on an "execution spree", alleging that Malaysians were being ...