I feel sorry for the guys mother, who will have to live with this every day.

As for his brother, he will also have to live with the whole "I did it to pay my brothers debt" thing.

He would have known what he was doing was regarded as highly illegal in MOST countries, and he certainly would have known that Singapore carried such a penalty for drug trafficking. Knowing this, HE took the risk in doing it, and he got caught...back luck to him!

It wasnt as if he was caught with a gram of heroin, he was caught with a LARGE quantity, so he knew what he was doing.

If you break a law in another country, you have to face the consequences.

To me, this demonstrates that if your a visitor to another country, you keep your mouth shut, your hands to yourself and abide by their laws and customs, and DONT do anything stupid which can get you into trouble. Simple as that.