Place of execution: Singapore's Changi Prison, where Nguyen Tuong Van is scheduled to hang in eight days
Singapore is believed to use "the long drop" method, which is meant to be the most 'merciful'. The correct length of the rope for an individual is crucial to the 'success' of a hanging - if success is defined as a quick death with little suffering.
A key measure of any society is the quality of its compassion and mercy. Singapore has a chance to redeem the inhumanity of this ongoing barbarism but I fear it will not...
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