Gov't urged to help mentally impaired man on death row in S'pore

Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a 30-year-old Malaysian who has been on death row in Singapore for nine years for trafficking drugs, saw his two appeals dismissed by the republic’s Court of Appeal in May.

Nagaenthran has an IQ level of 69 and suffers from ADHD.

He was sentenced to death in Nov 2010 for trafficking 42.72g of diamorphine, or heroin, into Singapore via the Woodlands Checkpoint on April 2009...