GEORGE TOWN: M. Karthigesu and his family have been living with sleepless nights for eight years, always fearing news that his brother, 30-year-old M. Thurkeshewaran, would be hanged.
On Friday (June 10), Karthigesu woke up to the news that the government had agreed to abolish the mandatory death penalty, and he was elated.
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