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A 45-year-old woman has been executed in Singapore, after being found guilty of trafficking 30.72 grams of heroin, local media reported.
“The death sentence imposed on Saridewi Binte Djamani was carried out on July 28, 2023,” the Central Narcotics Bureau said in a statement.
Saridewi Binte Djamani, who was convicted in 2018, “benefited from due process under the law and was represented by counsel throughout the proceedings,” the institution said in a statement.
“She appealed her conviction and sentence, and the Court of Appeal denied her appeal on October 6, 2022,” the office said, adding that her appeal for presidential clemency was also denied.
She is the first woman to be executed in the city-state since the 2004 sentence of Yen May Woen, a Singaporean woman hanged for drug trafficking, the Singapore prison service said in an email to AFP. According to media reports, Yen was a 36-year-old hairdresser.
