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Datchinamurthy a/l Kataiah (born 30 December 1985) is a Malaysian man who was sentenced to death in Singapore for drug trafficking. Datchinamurthy was convicted of trafficking nearly 45g of heroin across the Woodlands Checkpoint from Malaysia to Singapore in January 2011.
Liew Vui Keong, then Malaysia's law minister, stepped forward to provide help to Pannir's family and even wrote to the Singapore authorities with hopes to convince them to commute Pannir's death sentence to life imprisonment. [26] On 23 May 2019, a day before he was due to hang, the Court of Appeal granted Pannir a stay of execution.
The case of Nagaenthran also brought to attention the past cases of Australians executed for drug offences in Southeast Asian countries (e.g. Barlow and Chambers execution in Malaysia, Van Tuong Nguyen in Singapore, and both Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran of Bali Nine in Indonesia) and Australia's public opposition against the death penalty ...
A Singapore court on Monday stayed the execution of a Malaysian man convicted of heroin smuggling pending an appeal to be heard on Tuesday on grounds that he was not of sound mind, the man's ...
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]
If the death sentence is found to be legally sound, the stay is lifted. One example of a stay of execution in the death penalty context was the James Autry case. Autry was already strapped down to the execution table in Texas on 4 October 1983 when the order came to stop the execution. He was executed a few months later, on 14 March 1984.
After serving her jail sentence for five days, Sam finally obtained a stay of execution from the Court of Appeal on 18 April 2022. [14] Upon leaving prison, Sam through her lawyer urged the public to avoid blaming the judiciary, as criticizing a court's ruling in Malaysia can amount to contempt of court. [15]
A death row inmate in Missouri who has long claimed his innocence and is scheduled to be executed in less than one week asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday for a stay of execution, arguing his ...