The Man Who Saved Vui Kong

What legal reforms allowed for the recent re-sentencing of Sabahan Yong Vui Kong? And why did a government which for decades was certain in its conviction that it could justify one of the world’s highest rates of executions, change its tune? We speak to M Ravi who, according to Singapore online news portal Online Citizen, “took up his case just weeks before Vui Kong was scheduled to hang on 4 December 2009”. Days before his scheduled execution, M Ravi lodged a constitutional challenge on the mandatory death penalty and secured a temporary reprieve for Yong. We speak to the lawyer who saved Vui Kong.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.