Suthar waves to photographers as his older brother Ramesh looks on in this April 2010 file pic.
PETALING JAYA: Brothers Rames and Suthar Batumalai, who were convicted of murder in 2010, were executed at Kajang Prison early Wednesday morning, said Amnesty International Malaysia (AIM).
Executions in Malaysia are usually carried out on Fridays and it is believed that this is the first time an execution has been carried out on another day.
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