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Malaysia intends to abolish mandatory death penalty

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June 11, 2022
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Malaysia’s government said Friday it has agreed to abolish the mandatory death penalty, with campaigners welcoming the move but cautioning the country had failed to deliver on previous vows to improve rights.

The death penalty remains mandatory for several offences in the Southeast Asian nation, including murder and drug trafficking, although a moratorium on executions has been in place since 2018.

That year a reformist alliance took power and announced it would abolish capital punishment entirely but the plan stalled due to opposition from political rivals and murder victims’ families.

Since then, a watered-down proposal of axing only the death penalty in cases where it is mandatory had been mooted.

Law Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said Friday that the Cabinet had agreed to abolish mandatory capital punishment.

Further study would be conducted on what sentences could be substituted for the death penalty, he said.

“The decision on this matter shows the government’s priority to ensure the rights of all parties are protected and guaranteed,” he said in a statement.

As well as offences where capital punishment is mandatory, there are several other crimes where the death penalty can be handed down at the judge’s discretion.

The legislation will need to be enacted in parliament to make the changes, and Wan Junaidi told AFP it would “take a little while”, without giving a timeframe.

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The process is “not as simple as people would imagine it”, he added.

While welcoming the announcement, campaigners also expressed caution.

“Malaysia’s public pronouncement that it will do away with the mandatory death penalty is an important step forward,” Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch, told AFP.

“But before everyone starts cheering, we need to see Malaysia pass the actual legislative amendments to put this pledge into effect.”

He added there had been a trend of successive Malaysian governments “promising much on human rights but ultimately delivering very little”.

Amnesty International Malaysia’s executive director Katrina Jorene Maliamauv hailed the move as “a welcome step in the right direction, and we urge (the government) to go further and work towards full abolition of this cruel punishment.

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