Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public event
Description
I co-organised an Eleos Justice event featuring Ramkarpal Singh—Deputy Minister, Prime Minister's Department, Malaysia, speaking about the recent reform removing the mandatory death penalty in the country.
In April 2023, Malaysia’s parliament approved a bill that would remove the mandatory death penalty for a range of offences such as murder, drug trafficking, treason, kidnapping and acts of terror. The bill also provides an avenue for death row prisoners to have their sentences reviewed—there are currently 1,318 death row prisoners, 842 of whom have exhausted their avenues of appeal. The abolition of the mandatory death penalty puts Malaysia at a critical juncture, in which the government has a choice to continue the path towards total abolition.