KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian man was hanged in Singapore on Thursday for drug trafficking, raising the number of executions in the city-state to 11 this year despite renewed calls to abolish the death penalty.

The execution of Datchinamurthy Kataiah, 39, occurred Thursday afternoon after an unexplained brief delay.

Datchinamurthy was arrested in 2011 and later convicted of trafficking about 45 grams (1.6 ounces) of heroin into Singapore. He was to be hanged in 2022, but won a last-minute reprieve pending a legal challenge that was dismissed by a court in August.

Surendran K.Nagarajan, a Malaysian lawyer representing his family, said the family was informed early Thursday that the execution due at dawn had been halted. But hours later, Singapore’s prison authorities reversed

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