PUTRAJAYA: A prisoner on death row for murdering his sister-in-law, who was also his lover at a hotel in 2014, escaped the gallows today when the Federal Court commuted the death sentence with 32 years imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane.
A three-judge panel led by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat allowed the application by a former food and beverage industry worker, N. Kumaresan, 36, to replace the death penalty with imprisonment under the Revision of Sentence of Death and Imprisonment for Natural Life (Temporary Jurisdiction of the Federal Court) Act 2023.
