Datchinamurthy, 36, was supposed to be hanged tomorrow.

“There will be no execution tomorrow morning. Datchinamurthy argued the case himself as no Singapore lawyer dared to represent him for fear of reprisal from the state,” LFL adviser N Surendran said in a Twitter post.

Watch the video here.

Meanwhile, human rights lawyer M Ravi said the Singapore court granted the stay of execution pending the outcome of Datchinamurthy’s prison correspondence misconduct legal challenge.

The matter will be heard by the court on May 20.

Datchinamurthy was charged with smuggling 44.96gm of diamorphine into Singapore in 2011 and sentenced to death in 2015.

This comes after Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam’s execution yesterday for drug trafficking.