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"Don't smoke. That's it. Just don't smoke." -- Yul Brynner
I'm not sure I have a problem with this. He sold it, I wonder how many died from "bad" stuff or an overdose.
Don't try to smuggle drugs into Singapore.
'Don't use drugs' is hanged man's plea
----Whew..Thank goodness he warned people. I was getting ready to use some!
I bet he won't try smuggling drugs again.
If you'd asked me judging by the title, and before reading the article, I was thinking that when he was saying not to use drugs, that it was to not use drugs on hin so he could relish his execution while straight. LOL
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Also, I'd like to congratulate Singapore for its tough stand against drugs and for the public hanging of an individual smuggling the stuff into the country. Hello, U.S. authorities?
If Nguyen Tuong Van had only written a couple of children's books, he'd be on appeal with a line of celebs testifying to his "reformation".
But there was little dignity when his body, wrapped in a white sheet, was picked up by a local undertaker then carried on a stretcher to a funeral parlour in full public view.
Nguyen's family claimed his body within hours and will fly it home tonight for the funeral service in Melbourne he helped plan.
He's lucky this is Singapore that his family could reclaim his body after the execution. When Hong Kong still had capital punishment in the 1960s, even the relatives of the hanged wouldn't be able to reclaim the body. All of the executed were buried in a special cemetery within the prison grounds, and only marked with the criminal's number. Even decades later, relatives even allowed to go in and visit the graves.
