Photo: AFPSingapore imposes the death penalty for a litany of crimes, including murder and some forms of kidnapping. It also has some of the world’s toughest anti-drug laws: trafficking more than 500 grams of cannabis can result in the death penalty. Photo: AFPIn a program first introduced in the 1990s, they were offered the option to pose for photographs before their death. ‘VENEER OF THOUGHTFULNESS’Little information is publicly available about Singapore’s death row inmates. The Transformative Justice Collective, which provides support to families of death row prisoners and advocates for the abolition of the death penalty, estimates about 53 people are on death row, the majority convicted of drug offenses.
