234. They will be released or have their sentences reduced. The Law Minister said any planned executions will not be carried out.
Malaysia’s chief judge, Tengku Maimum Binti Tuan Mat, told prosecutors they had not produced enough evidence to support her conviction or the death penalty, while noting expert testimony as … malaysia-death-penalty-repeal.html>. In Malaysia, death penalty is a mandatory punishment for murder, drug trafficking, treason, and waging war against the YDPA. Venkatesan Chinnasami v PP [2011] 1 LNS 1736 235.

Malaysia will abolish the death penalty in a move that pleased human rights campaigners. 236. Cornell Centre on the Death Penalty Worldwide, ‘Judged for More than Her Crime: Global Overview of Women Facing the Death Penalty’ (Report of the Alice Project, September 2018) 12. Malaysia's government says it will abolish the death penalty and halt all executions. Malaysia's surprise announcement that it will move to abolish the death penalty is a breakthrough for conservative Southeast Asia — and follows a global outcry over the death sentence meted out to a provider of medicinal cannabis oil. 237. Joint stakeholder report – 31st session of the UPR Death penalty in Malaysia March 2018 2 punishment should only be used for the “most serious crimes”.7 This threshold was specified to mean crimes that were limited to those “with lethal or other extremely grave consequences”8, and was endorsed by the UN General Assembly.9 This threshold is not being met by Malaysia.

Capital punishment has recently been extended to acts of terrorism, rapists that cause death, child rapists and kidnapping. 1.

Munuswamy Sundar Raj v PP [1987] 1 MLJ 492, [6]. There are currently over 1,267 people on death row in Malaysia.