Judicial Executions in Singapore

Parliament of Singapore · 21 October 2011

Official Report, 21 October 2011, Vol 88, Issue 6 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)

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Mr Pritam Singh asked the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs from 2004 to 2010, how many criminals have been hanged in Singapore and what is the breakdown in terms of foreigners, permanent residents and Singaporeans for each of these years.

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Mr Teo Chee Hean: The Singapore Prison Service publishes the number of judicial executions in its Prisons Annual Report. This is publicly available on its website.

From 2004 to 2010, there were a total of 26 Singaporeans and 12 foreigners who were executed in Singapore. There were no Permanent Residents executed during this period. The breakdown is provided in the table below.

Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 21 October 2011. Republished on SGParliament.