A foreign ministry spokesperson said prime minister Lee Hsien Loong and foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan had informed their Malaysian counterparts on Tuesday.

Malaysian leaders had sent appeal letters to seek reconsideration of the death sentence.

Wisma Putra said on Thursday that Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and foreign minister Saifuddin Abdullah had urged their counterparts in Singapore to ask their government to reconsider and commute his sentence.

They had written to the Singapore government in November, and the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, also appealed to the Singapore president in December to commute Nagaenthran’s death sentence.

Nagaenthran, 34, was executed on Wednesday for having 42.72g of heroin when entering Singapore in 2009. His lawyers said he was intellectually disabled.

Earlier today, his body was cremated in Ipoh, at a funeral attended by more than 100 people.