Singapore has executed 15 people on drugs related offences since March last year.

A 45-year-old woman was hanged on Friday, the first woman to be put to death in the city-state for nearly 20 years.

Guest: Helen Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister, Chair of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and a Commissioner of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty

Producer:

Nancy Notzon

NOTE: In the interview it was said there was a pause on executions in Singapore in 2009. Helen Clark advises that it was 2019.

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