PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian man who was scheduled to be executed in Singapore on Friday (May 24) for drug trafficking has been granted a stay of execution by the republic's Court of Appeal.
P. Pannir Selvam, 32, who was due to be executed in Changi Prison on Friday, had filed the application himself from prison.“The court has just granted stay.
Execution will not take place,” Lawyers for Liberty adviser N. Surendran told Star Online in a brief message. Pannir was convicted in 2017 of trafficking 51.84g of diamorphine or heroin at the Woodlands Checkpoint on Sept 3, 2014.
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