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Bar Council again urges S’pore to consider clemency for Nagaenthran

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The Bar Council has reiterated its call for Singapore to consider granting intellectually challenged death row inmate Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam clemency on compassionate grounds. Back in June 2020, Singapore President Halimah Yacob had rejected the 33-year-old Malaysian’s petition for his death sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In a statement today, Bar Council president AG Kalidas called for “reconsideration” given reports of Nagaenthran’s mental health condition. “Given the reported further deterioration of Nagaenthran’s mental condition, we believe that a reconsideration of cle…

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