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The Barlow and Chambers execution refers to the hanging in 1986 by Malaysia of two Australian citizens Kevin John Barlow and Brian Geoffrey Shergold Chambers of Perth Western Australia for the drug trafficking of 141.9 g of heroin.The two men became the first Westerners to be executed under Malaysia’s new tougher laws for drug offences that prescribe death for anyone convicted of having over 15 grams of heroin.