'Love letters' from death row: Singapore's pre-execution photo shoots
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Death row inmate Nazeri Lajim beams at the camera, fingers raised in a "V" sign, wearing a shirt emblazoned with large motifs and showing no signs of his impending hanging. Taken days before his execution at Singapore's Changi prison, the picture is among the last mementoes Lajim's family has of the 64-year-old, who was executed on charges of drug trafficking. Rights groups have long called to abolish capital punishment, but the city-state insists it is an effective deterrent against crime.
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