On 26 July 2022 the Central Narcotics Bureau said a 50-year-old Singaporean had his capital sentence carried out at Changi Prison Complex after an unsuccessful clemency petition.[1] The bureau gave no name, respecting his family’s wish for privacy, and described the offence only as trafficking in controlled drugs.[1] Anti-death-penalty groups identified the hanged man as Fazali bin Mohamed, convicted of a cannabis trafficking case.[2]
Stash at Sims Drive
Officers arrested Fazali, then 45, on 16 March 2015 at Block 55 Sims Drive and searched his unit.[3] They recovered eight packages containing not less than 1,838.8 grams of cannabis and 2,775.34 grams of cannabis mixture, roughly three times the quantity that triggers a mandatory death sentence for cannabis alone.[3] The High Court found he had received the drugs from associates to deliver onward and that he knew he was trafficking.[3] Neither side asked the court to apply the courier discretion under section 33B of the Misuse of Drugs Act, so the judge passed death on 30 January 2018.[3]
Years on death row
Reporting on the execution said the inmate had been on death row since his 2015 arrest and that he was one of 17 prisoners who had sued over alleged racial bias in capital drug cases, a suit the High Court dismissed in December 2021.[1] The opened sources do not say whether he filed further applications between that judgment and the July 2022 hanging.
