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The coronavirus has lead to more business than ever taking place over video calls. Singapore’s High Court has the grim distinction of being the first (that we know of) to sentence someone to death over Zoom.

A Malaysian man, Punithan Genasan, was found guilty of being complicit in drug trafficking, according to Singapore’s Straits Times. He facilitated the trafficking of 28.5 kilograms of heroin back in 2011, before leaving the country, which has a zero-tolerance policy for illegal drug use, for Malaysia. He was then extradited in 2016, eventually found guilty and, last Friday, sentenced to death via a Zoom call between High…