Singapore’s Changi prison plans to execute an Indian-origin Malaysian man with a mental handicap on Wednesday after losing a final appeal, according to a media report.

Singapore law mandates the death penalty for trafficking 42.72 grams of heroin, which Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, 34, was found guilty of in 2009.

M. Ravi, Dharmalingam’s former lawyer in Singapore, was quoted in the Star as saying.

The death penalty for drug trafficking was upheld by a Singapore court on March 29, and he was scheduled to be executed today. In 2011, he lost an appeal against his conviction and imprisonment.

This decision was made by Singapore’s High Court, which found that Dharmalingam did not meet the criteria for being sentenced to life in prison.

In October of last year, a letter from the Singapore Prison Service notifying his mother in Ipoh that he would be executed on November 10 received widespread attention.

Clemency calls were made after the letter was uploaded on social media. It was Ravi’s last-ditch argument that Dharmalingam had the “mental age” of someone under 18 years old that halted the execution.

The High Court denied him permission to begin judicial review procedures to overturn his death sentence, however.

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