Law changes may allow Indian national to escape the gallows in Singapore: report

Deccan Herald, 28 Sep 2012
Proposed changes to a mandatory death sentencing law in Singapore, if approved by parliament, may save an Indian national from the gallows for killing a Filipina prostitute in 2010, a media report said today.
Bijukumar Remadevi Nair Gopinathan's appeal on the death sentence for murdering Roselyn Reyes Pascua was dismissed yesterday, the Straits Times reported.
But the former shipyard worker in Singapore might still have a chance of escaping the hangman's noose if the changes to the law, proposed in July this year, are passed by parliament, according to the report by the Singapore daily. Full story