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Yong Vui Kong, the Malaysian who escaped the gallows for drug trafficking in Singapore

PETALING JAYA: Death row inmate Yong Vui Kong turned vegetarian and found religion again while waiting for the day he would be taken to the gallows.

His prayers were answered when, thanks to a change in law, his death sentence was commuted and he was jailed for life instead with 15 strokes of the cane imposed.

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