Angel Mou Pui - Peng, a 25 year old unmarried mother, was hanged
in  Changi prison before  dawn on Friday  6th  January 1995.

Angel was  arrested at  Singapore's Changi airport  on August. 29 th, 1991,
after  arriving  from  Bangkok,  with  a  suitcase  containing  20  packets
totalling over 4.1 kg  of heroin according to The Central Narcotics Bureau.
At  her  trial she  claimed  she  did not  know  the false-bottom  suitcase
contained heroin  and thought she was  carrying contraband watches instead.
She  was found  guilty  and sentenced  to death  in  1993 and  as  usual in
Singapore both her appeals were rejected.
However  she was  granted  a temporary  stay of  execution  on the  22nd of
December 1994, apparently to  allow her family to spend Christmas with her,
after  a plea  by  her mother  and 9-year-old  son, having  been originally
scheduled  to  hang on  Friday  23 rd December  with  two Singaporean  drug
traffickers.
On the eve of  her execution her lawyer Peter Yap said that she was "normal
and calm" when he saw her. He said she "was emotionally stable and prepared
to die. Spiritually she  was very strong." He also said Angel was comforted
by the settlement of guardianship for her son.
Hangings  are normally  carried out  in groups  of three to  five prisoners
simultaneously  and in  strict secrecy  - little  is known about  the exact
procedure.  Unusually Angel was  executed separately  (due to the  stay) At
about 5.30  a.m. she  would have been  escorted by her guards  to a waiting
room to  be prepared. Her arms would have been  pinioned and she would have
been hooded with a black cloth sack and then at around 6.00 a.m. local time
she would  have been  led to the  large gallows that can  accommodate up to
seven prisoners. Her legs  would have been strapped together and the modern
style  noose  placed  round  her neck.  Singapore  uses  the  long drop  so
hopefully she got a quick death.
After execution  the body is returned to relatives  and she was cremated in
the  early  evening  at  Mount Vernon  crematorium  after  a short  service
attended by her family and friends.
"Our sister Angel has  now been taken to heaven - a place we will go and we
shall  hope to  see  her there  one day,"  an  elderly pastor,  speaking in
Cantonese, told the congregation of some 25 people.
"When are  you coming back to Hong Kong?" a  young woman cried in Cantonese
as she, Angel's sister Cecilia and a few others watched the coffin, covered
in black velvet, disappear into the furnace.
Her father,  reportedly reconciled with his  daughter during her brief stay
of   execution,   broke    down   uncontrollably   after   the   cremation.