The Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN) welcomes the President’s decision to grant  respite to Roslan bin Bakar and Pausi bin Jefridin and calls on the Government of Singapore  to commute their sentences considering their vulnerabilities as persons with borderline  intellectual functioning and intellectual disability.  

ADPAN strongly encourages the Government of Singapore to impose a moratorium on  execution and to review the use of the death penalty in Singapore. 

International law and norms limit the use of the death penalty only for the most serious  crimes involving intentional crimes with lethal consequences. Drug trafficking does not meet  this threshold and it is disproportionate for persons convicted of drug offences to be punished  with the death penalty. Furthermore, the death penalty has not been proven to be an  effective means of deterrence and this should not be the foundation on which the death  penalty is applied.