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Judicial Executions

Data from Jan 2007 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:08 SGT

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Number of Judicial Executions in each year breakdown by offence.

Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_f4081559b7db4f792a395138a540db1d"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Singapore Prison Service. (2018). Judicial Executions (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 20, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f4081559b7db4f792a395138a540db1d/view

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Created on

17 Jul 2018

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

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Judicial Executions

Data from Jan 2007 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:08 SGT

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Number of Judicial Executions in each year breakdown by offence.

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JudicialExecutions.csv (48 rows, 736 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Types Of Judical Executions Text	Number Of Judical Executions Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2007	MURDER	1
2007	FIREARMS	0
2007	DRUG	2
2008	MURDER	4
2008	FIREARMS	0
2008	DRUG	2
2009	MURDER	1
2009	FIREARMS	1
2009	DRUG	3
2010	MURDER	0

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Types Of Judical Executions	types_of_judical_executions	Text	-	-
Number Of Judical Executions	number_of_judical_executions	Numeric	Number of Executions	-

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