2 on death row in Singapore lose appeal, renew legal bid

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Two death row inmates in Singapore have lost another appeal against their pending execution on the grounds they were mentally disabled, but their family filed a fresh legal bid to save them. A lawyer says Singapore’s High Court rejected an application to review the executions that had been scheduled for Wednesday but stayed the order pending an appeal hearing. The Court of Appeal also dismissed that plea. Another appeal was filed on the manner the death penalty has been administered in Singapore and the hearing is due on Thursday morning. The two, a Malaysian and a Singaporean, were arrested for smuggling drugs into the country. They will be the first to be executed since November 2019 if their sentences are upheld.