
About 300 people held a candlelight vigil at a Singapore park on Monday to protest against the planned hanging of a Malaysian convicted of drug smuggling whom activists say should be spared because he has an intellectual disability.
Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, 34, has been on death row for more than a decade for trafficking 43 grams (1.5 oz) of heroin into Singapore. He lost his final appeal against the execution last month.