In its proposal, the Government recognised the death penalty provisions in the current law prove several inadequacies. Specifically, the penalty ranges, spanning 20 years’ imprisonment to life sentence or death penalty, is rather broad, making the application challenging.

Singapore, which has some of the world’s toughest drug laws, will maintain capital punishment for serious drug crime as reflecting public support, said Singaporean Minister of Law K Shanmugam.

Philippine lower house lawmakers on March 7 approved the re-imposition of capital punishment for eight drug-related crimes.

Drug baron Trang A Tang and eight accomplices have been given death sentence while three others have received life imprisonment for their involvement in trafficking 1,791 heroin bricks.

The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City has handed down capital punishment to t wo defendants in a high-profile embezzlement case at a financial leasing company under the State-owned Agribank.

The Hanoi People’s Court sentenced a Philippine national to death for drug trafficking on August 18.