KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 10 - Malaysia's top court set aside the death penalty on Thursday for a former policeman convicted of the murder of a Mongolian woman, sentencing him instead to 40 years in jail, his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- Malaysia has commuted the death sentence of an ex-police guard of former premier Najib Razak, after the Southeast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shamini Darshni Kalimuthu, Executive Director of Amnesty International Malaysia, seeks during a press conference in Petaling Jaya, ...

Malaysia will abolish the mandatory death penalty, the government said Friday, in a move cautiously welcomed by rights groups as a rare progressive step on the issue for the region. In a statement, ...

The 11 inmates are the first of more than 1,000 that have applied for reviews since the abolition of the mandatory death sentence in July. As its Southeast Asian neighbors take steps away from capital ...

Malaysia’s Parliament Tuesday passed two bills reforming death penalty sentencing and abolishing the mandatory death penalty for certain offenses. Human rights groups welcomed the move as a step ...

Malaysia’s Parliament Monday began its consideration of two bills introduced to abolish mandatory death penalties for certain sentences. The Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Bill of 2023 would ...

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When Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a Malaysian national, was facing the death penalty in Singapore on drug charges, Malaysia’s prime minister and foreign minister twice wrote to the Singapore government ...