Just not cricket!

From the Sydney Morning Herald:

Prime Minister John Howard will attend the PM's XI cricket match on Friday, the day of Australian Nguyen Tuong Van's scheduled execution, and he believes Australians will understand.
Mr Howard says he has a duty to attend the game, in Canberra, and it is not his decision to schedule the hanging on that day....
"I have a job that involves many responsibilities. It wasn't my decision that the execution take place on Friday," Mr Howard told ABC radio.

Finally, as if anyone had any doubt about the inhumanity of the Singapore justice system this confirms it. You'd think after hundreds of years of British rule they'd have learnt not to schedule their hangings at the same time as the cricket - bloody barbaric! The civilised thing would be to time it to coincide with the tea interval.