SPECIAL REPORT | P Sangkari was picking up groceries when she received an unexpected phone call from the Singapore Prison Service.

They told her she had mail, and she immediately rushed home.

The large couriered package contained two letters about her brother P Pannir Selvam, who was interned in Changi Prison, on death row.

One letter said that his clemency petition had been turned down by Singapore President Halimah Yacob. The other was a notice from the prison that he would hang in a week - on May 24...