Singapore: clemency granted for death row prisoner
A recent article has reported that Singapore has granted clemency to a death row prisoner, for the first time since 1998.
Tristan Tan Yi Rui was sentenced to death in 2023 but his death sentence will now be commuted to life imprisonment. While this was a welcomed decision, it came just one day after the country carried out its third execution in three weeks, the tenth this year.
The Capital Punishment Justice Project together with Amnesty International, the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network and Harm Reduction International have issued a joint statement calling on Singapore to immediately establish a moratorium on all executions, and commute all existing death sentences as the first critical steps towards fully abolishing the death penalty.