Singapore hanged a 59-year-old man on August 7 for drug trafficking, authorities said, the second execution in the city-state in less than a week. The United Nations and rights groups say capital punishment has no proven deterrent effect and have called for it to be discontinued. Singaporean officials, however, insist it has helped make the...

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