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Jury trials were abolished in 1969 and the Criminal Procedure Code was amended in 1992 to allow for trials of capital offences to be heard before a single judge. [1] The Court of Appeal is Singapore's final court of appeal after the right of appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London was abolished in April 1994.
On 21 October 1970, the court dismissed Teo's appeal against his death sentence, and he was eventually hanged in May 1971. Teo was the first person in Singapore's legal history to be tried for a capital case before two judges in the High Court and also the first person to be sentenced to death following the abolishment of jury trials in January ...
A jury trial, or trial by jury, is ... The history of jury trials in India dates back to the period of European colonization. ... Singapore fully abolished the jury ...
Changi Prison, where Singapore's death row is located Capital punishment in Singapore is a legal penalty. Executions in Singapore are carried out by long drop hanging, and usually take place at dawn. Thirty-three offences—including murder, drug trafficking, terrorism, use of firearms and kidnapping —warrant the death penalty under Singaporean law. In 2012, Singapore amended its laws to ...
The trial judge was Murray Buttrose, who was best known for sentencing the aforementioned killer Sunny Ang to death for killing his girlfriend. A special jury of seven members was selected to hear the case, and back then in Singapore, jury trials were conducted to hear capital cases up until 1970, before the abolition of the jury system. [14]
Since the crime of murder was a capital offence in Singapore (inherited from the laws of British colonial rule), Ang faced mandatory capital punishment should the jury find him guilty, either by a majority or unanimous decision under the law of Singapore (before the country's abolition of jury trials in 1970).
The trial itself was the first case where two judges presided the trial hearing of a capital case and sent three men to the gallows for murder, after the Singapore government abolished jury trials for capital crimes in January 1970, five months before the verdict of death was given. [34]
Chionh, Mavis (2005), "The Development of the Court System", in Kevin Y L Tan (ed.), Essays in Singapore Legal History, Singapore: Singapore Academy of Law; Marshall Cavendish Academic, pp. 93– 138, ISBN 978-981-210-389-5. History, Supreme Court of Singapore, 21 May 2010, archived from the original on 19 July 2011