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Death penalties are carried out in Malaysia by hanging.As of 2015 the penalty was mandatory in twelve offences and possible in thirty-three. [5] The thirty-three capital crimes included murder, drug trafficking, treason, acts of terrorism, waging war against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, and, since 2007, rape resulting in death. [6]
Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023 (Malay: Akta Pemansuhan Hukuman Mati Mandatori 2023) is a Malaysian law enacted by the Parliament of Malaysia to abolish the mandatory death penalty and imprisonment for natural life in Malaysia. However, the death penalty will still remain as a possible and legal punishment under Malaysia's ...
The Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) also agreed with the Court of Appeal's decision to sentence all the six murderers to the death penalty and found it an appropriate and fair sentence for the cold-blooded murder of Zularhan, and they criticized Suhakam's opposition to the sentence, emphasizing that all judges in Malaysia had the ...
Malaysia's top court on Tuesday commuted the death sentences and natural-life prison terms of 11 people convicted of drug trafficking, including two Thai nationals, following capital punishment ...
‘The death penalty has not brought the results it was intended to bring,’ says deputy law minister Malaysia scraps mandatory death penalty and natural-life prison terms Skip to main content
While many human rights groups pushed for abolition of the death penalty, most Malaysians believed that the death penalty should remain for serious crimes like murder and certain offences of corruption other than drug trafficking, and support for the death penalty remains high in Malaysia despite the decreasing numbers of new death sentences ...
Two years and six months after Mohammad Awari lost his appeal to the Federal Court, the Malaysian government abolished the mandatory death penalty in April 2023, and under the revised laws, anyone convicted of murder would face either the death sentence or a lengthy jail term ranging between 30 and 40 years, [33] and after the new laws took ...
Singapore on Wednesday executed a Malaysian man convicted of drug smuggling after a court dismissed a last-minute challenge from his mother and international pleas to spare him on grounds he was ...