‘Nay’ to mandatory death penalty


KUALA LUMPUR: Two Bills to abolish the mandatory death penalty were passed in the Dewan Rakyat yesterday following a voice vote by MPs.

Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Ramkarpal Singh tabled the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Bill 2023 and the Revision of Sentences of Death and Imprisonment for Natural Life (Temporary Jurisdiction of the Federal Court) Bill 2023 for their second and third readings in Parliament.

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