Death sentence via zoom call in Singapore
A man in Singapore has been sentenced to death via a zoom video call as the country remained under lockdown. Punithan Genasan, 37, received the sentence on Friday for his role in a drug deal that took place in 2011. Human rights groups argued that pursuing the death penalty at a time when the world is being gripped by a pandemic was "abhorrent".
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