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Capital punishment in Malaysia is used as a penalty within its legal system for various crimes. There are currently 27 capital crimes in Malaysia, including murder, drug trafficking, treason, acts of terrorism, waging war against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, and, since 2007, rape resulting in death.
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 ...
The three judges, for reasons not made public, commuted Teh's two death sentences for kidnapping and murder to concurrent jail terms of 40 years each, the second-highest punishment presently warranted for both kidnapping and murder in Malaysia, which effectively allowed Teh to escape the gallows for abducting and murdering Lai back in 2008.
Prisoners sentenced to death by Malaysia (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Capital punishment in Malaysia" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
Kok's mother, the mother of murdered cosplayer Ng Yuk Tim (whose boyfriend Poon Wai Hong was jailed 22 years for her manslaughter) [65] and countless other families of murder victims in Malaysia gathered in November 2018 to express their opposition to the abolition of capital punishment, and they also slammed the human rights advocates for ...
Intan's murderer Tarmizi Yaakob was subsequently found guilty of both rape and murder, and sentenced to death in 2019, before his death sentence was commuted to 33 years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane in 2023, after Malaysia repealed the mandatory death penalty and allowed those convicted of murder to face either a death sentence or a jail ...
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 ...
Capital punishment in Malaysia (2 C, 25 P) ... Pages in category "Murder in Malaysia" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.