Singapore: Further information on Death penalty / imminent execution Anthony Ler

Index Number: ASA 36/006/2002
Date Published: 13 December 2002
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, Singapore

Amnesty International has learned that Anthony Ler was hanged at dawn on 13 December in Changi Prison. He had been sentenced to death in December 2001 after being found guilty of hiring a 15-year-old boy to kill his wife.