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    BEIJING, Dec. 1 -- Nguyen Tuong Van, an Australian due to be executed in Singapore on Friday for heroin trafficking, has accepted he will be hanged despite appeals by the Australian government and his supporters.

    His lawyer Lex Lasry made the comment on Wednesday.

    "He wants to die a good death, he believes he has lived a good life in the last couple of years and he has dealt with what he is facing. He is ready to face it."

    Vietnam-born Nguyen received a mandatory death sentence after being caught with 396 grams of heroin at Singapore's Changi Airport en route from Cambodia to Australia in 2002.

    Government officials from Australia, which abolished the death penalty in 1973, said Nguyen deserved to live because he was young, had shown remorse and had no prior convictions.

    But Singapore hasn't backed down despite numerous Australian appeals to spare his life, insisting it must treat foreigner nationals and its own citizens equally under the law and that drug trafficking was a serious offence which can lead to abusers' deaths. Enditem

(Source: CRIENGLISH.com)