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Book Review: Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock

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Aug 13, 2010
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When a small Malaysian academic publisher printed a book on the death penalty in Singapore by a little-known British freelance journalist, neither could seriously have expected it to make much of a splash in the tightly-controlled city-state or beyond.

That all changed when, in the early hours of July 18, the Singapore police arrested the author, Alan Sh…

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