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Sentenced to 31 years. Transferred to Bandyup Women's Prison in Australia in late 2007. [40] Robert Halliwell: Sydney: Drug trafficking (heroin) August 2000: Arrested with Deane-Johns whilst attempting to post heroin to Australia. Police later found another 110 grams of heroin in Halliwell's apartment. Sentenced to life imprisonment. [40]
Among more than 40 inmates he says are currently on death row, most are in the “lower social-economic category.” One of the 11 prisoners executed in 2022 for drug offenses was Nazeri bin Lajim.
However cannabis only accounted for 28.3% of the weight of illicit drugs seized. There were 72,381 cannabis arrests in 2017–18, with the number of national cannabis arrests increasing 30% over the last decade. Of the 72,381 cannabis related arrests in Australia 92% were consumer arrests and 8% were provider arrests.
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
Death penalty has been carried out many times for cannabis trafficking. In July 2004 a convicted drug trafficker, Raman Selvam Renganathan who stored 2.7 kilograms of cannabis or marijuana in a Singapore flat was hanged in Changi Prison. He was sentenced to death on September 1, 2003, after an eight-day trial.
The inmate was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated and a parole violation from an earlier case, according to Newburyport News. The cause of death was hanging, using a "anti-suicide" bedsheet. The inmate was on suicide watch, according to Newburyport News. Jail or Agency: Rockingham County Department of Corrections; State: New ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of Australian people who have been convicted of serious crimes. Bank robbers Australians convicted of bank robbery ...
Merely three weeks after Tangaraju was hanged, on 17 May 2023, a 36-year-old Singaporean man named Muhammad Faizal Mohd Shariff became the second drug trafficker on death row to be put to death in Singapore in the year of 2023. Muhammad Faizal, who was arrested in February 2016, was found guilty of smuggling 1.5kg of marijuana and sentenced to ...