Executioner tells of eerie goings on

DESPITE his humble and polite demeanour, Kesavan A. Arumugam (pic) is a man who can strike fear in the heart of the most-hardened prisoner. The reason – he was an executioner who spent the first month of his working career on attachment in Pudu Prison.

Although he spent much of his career in the Kajang Prison, he was recalled to Pudu Prison whenever there were executions. He said he had performed about four executions in Pudu before the department started to carry out the sentence in Kajang.