Counterblast: Escaping the gallows Singapore style
The four‐year long struggle by Yong Vui Kong to challenge his mandatory death sentence reveals how life and death decisions can turn on legal niceties. For instance, on 20 November 2009, the President of the Republic of Singapore turned down Yong's plea for clemency and this news was conveyed t...
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Main Author: | FINDLAY, Mark |
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2014
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