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2005: Shanmugam Murugesu, for the chronic
On this date in 2005, Singapore hanged a 34-year-old for pot. Shanmugam Murugesu, an ethnically Tamil Singaporean, was nabbed carrying a kilo of marijuana. Your basic “wtf drug war” case study, this...
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1988: Adrian Lim and his two wives
On this date in 1988, a trio that had once formed an abusive family were all hanged in Singapore for their shocking ritual murders. Top to bottom: Lim, Tan Mui Choo, and Hoe Kah Hong. The Toa Payoh...
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1995: Flor Contemplacion, OFW
On this date in 1995, Filipina maid Flor Contemplacion was hanged for murder in Singapore. Contemplacion had, four years before, strangled a fellow-maid and drowned that maid’s four-year-old charge....
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1915: 22 Singapore mutineers
On this date in 1915, “the sentences of the court-martial on a batch of 45 mutineers of the 5th Light Infantry were promulgated in public” — as the Straits Times reported — “and, in the case of 22 who...
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2003: Vignes Mourthi, framed in Singapore?
On this date in 2003, 23-year-old Malaysian Vignes Mourthi was hanged in Singapore’s Changi Prison as a drug courier, along with his supposed collaborator Moorthy Angappan. Mourthi vigorously...
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1973: Mimi Wong Weng Siu, jealous hostess
On this date in 1973, former cabaret star Mimi Wong Weng Siu and her husband Sim Woh Kum were hanged for the murder of Wong’s Japanese lover’s wife. “Overwhelmed by a consuming jealousy” (her...
View Article1915: Kassim Ismail Mansoor, purveyor of coffee and treason
A century ago today, an Indian Muslim named Kassim Ismail Mansoor was hanged by the British in Singapore as a traitor. The treason in question concerned the dramatic mutiny some months previous of...
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1975: The Gold Bar Murderers
On the last day of February in 1975, seven men from among a gang who authored one of Singapore’s signature murders were hanged at Changi Prison. (cc) image from Bullion Vault. Four days after Christmas...
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1968: Harun Thohir and Usman Janatin, for the MacDonald House bombing
On this date in 1968, Indonesian Lance Corporal Harun Thohir and Sgt. Usman Janatin were hanged in Singapore for bombing the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank three years earlier. Aptly, such confrontational...
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1967: Sunny Ang, a murderer without a body
On this date in 1967, Sunny Ang hanged in Singapore for murder. “This is an unusual case insofar as Singapore, or for that matter Malaysia,* is concerned,” said the prosecutor. “This is the first case...
View Article2007: Leong Siew Chor, Kallang Body Parts Murderer
On this date in 2007, Singapore hanged Leong Siew Chor. Perpetrator of a crime evocatively known as the Kallang Body Parts Murder, Leong circa mid-2005 was a 50-year-old married man having a fling with...
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1965: Eighteen prison rioters from Pulau Senang
On this date in 1964, newly-independent Singapore hanged 18 former inmates of the Pulau Senang penal settlement for a deadly 1963 riot. Pulau Senang. (cc) image by Jnzl. “Island of Ease” the name means...
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1988: Sek Kim Wah, thriller
Thirty years ago today, Singapore hanged Sek Kim Wah for his “thrilling” home invasion murders. A sociopathic 19-year-old army conscript, Sek had got a taste for blood in June 1983 by strangling a...
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1995: Angel Mou Pui-Peng
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View Article1995: Navarat Maykha, accidental smuggler
A Thai national named Navarat Maykha was hanged in Singapore on this date in 1995 for drug-smuggling. “An impoverished and uneducated woman, and also deeply religious, she swore until her death that...
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