While he was on death row at Changi Prison, Daniel Chan, who lost his appeal, did not file for clemency despite his lawyer Spencer Gwee's advice, due to him feeling that such a move would damage his claims of innocence over the offence he was convicted of. Nevertheless, Gwee drafted a petition for clemency and submitted it in May 1994 on Chan's behalf, in hopes of obtaining a reprieve and commuting his client's death sentence to life imprisonment. However, on 18 November 1994, the clemency appeal was rejected by then President of Singapore Ong Teng Cheong. Soon after, a death warrant was made and the prison authorities informed Chan's family that Chan was scheduled to be executed a week later on 25 November 1994. Both the British High Commission and Amnesty International appealed for clemency upon being given notice of the death warrant.
