Singapore officials have said that a Malaysian prisoner was executed hours after a last-minute appeal was rejected by the court. SINGAPORE—A Malaysian man convicted of murder in Singapore was executed Friday hours after the city-state’s highest court rejected a last-minute appeal, police said. The Court of Appeal found no merit in the appeal by a lawyer representing Kho Jabing that challenged the constitutionality of the death penalty in Singapore. Rachel Zheng of the Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign said it was the first time an execution in Singapore had proceeded on the same day that an appeal was dismissed. The Singapore Police Force’s statement said the death sentence was carried out after Kho had been “accorded full due process under the law.”

Source: thestar May 20, 2016 08:32 UTC