SINGAPORE - Malaysian death row inmate K Datchinamurthy was executed at Singapore’s Changi Prison on Thursday, the republic’s Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) confirmed.
"The capital sentence of death imposed on Datchinamurthy a/l Kataiah was carried out on Sept 25 2025. Datchinamurthy was accorded full due process under the law and was represented by legal counsel during trial and appeal,” CNB said in a statement.
CNB said Datchinamurthy’s petitions to the Singapore President for clemency were also unsuccessful.
Datchinamurthy was convicted of trafficking 44.96g of diamorphine into Singapore in 2011 and was sentenced to death on Apr 15, 2015.
He appealed against his conviction and sentence, but the Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal on Feb 5, 2016.
In 2022, he was granted a stay of execution ahead of his scheduled date on Apr 29, 2022, to allow judicial review proceedings to commence.
Meanwhile, the family’s lawyer, N Surendran, said they were informed in the afternoon that the execution would proceed, after earlier being told in the morning that it had been halted.
"This morning at 12.30am, the family of Datchinamurthy received news that the execution was halted. To our shock, a short while ago, the family was informed that the execution would proceed, and to collect the body at 3 pm,” he said in a statement. - BERNAMA