Apex court upholds death penalty of father found guilty of killing infant son


KUCHING: The Federal Court on Wednesday (Nov 19) upheld the conviction and death sentence on a father found guilty of murdering his two-month-old disabled baby boy by smashing the child's body.

A three-member panel chaired by Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Azizah Nawawi, together with Federal Court Judge Rhodzariah Bujang and Court of Appeal Judge Azimah Omar, unanimously ruled that the High Court and Court of Appeal had made no error in evaluating the overall trial evidence.

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