The article highlights the question of why Malaysia maintains the death penalty even after the moratorium in 2018 and the abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act in 2023. It discusses the need for a review of the death penalty and its implications for crime deterrence, evidence integrity, and racial polarisation.
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Plus, enjoy an additional FREE RM10 when you sign up using code VERSAMM10 with a min. cash-in of RM100 today. T&Cs apply. On 24 May 2017, two men were hanged at Sungai Buloh Prison. One of them, 48-year-old Yong Kar Mun, had been convicted of discharging a firearm during a robbery, while the other was convicted of murder.
To me, a question that must be asked is why we still maintain the death penalty on the books when it is no longer being practised. A moratorium was put in place in 2018 and the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023 took effect in 2023, with several laws amended to remove the mandatory death penalty. But even though we are no longer carrying out executions, people can still technically be handed the death penalty.
The author argues that Malaysia should question why it still keeps the death penalty in law when executions are no longer being carried out. — Unsplash pic That’s why we were treated to the spectacle of Machang MP Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal, who urged the government to consider the death penalty for drink drivers who cause fatal accidents.
He was, of course, engaged in political opportunism, knowing that such an issue might be racially polarising, which appears to be a common trend among PN’s elected representatives. Scientific consensus and global studies indicate that the death penalty has no significant deterrent effect on crime compared to life imprisonment. Take, for example, the failed war on drugs — a majority of the 900-plus people still on death row are there for drug-related crimes.
We also have questions raised over compromised evidence-gathering, such as planted evidence and confessions extorted through violence. Last year, civil society organisations engaged with Deputy Law Minister M. Kulasegaran to discuss the future of the death penalty in this country. * Elesh Vengadesan-Lee is a death penalty abolitionist.
Death Penalty Review Murder Mandatory Death Penalty Act Crime Deterrence Civil Society Elected Representatives Failed War On Drugs Plantation Evidence Confessions Extorted Through Violence Deputy Law Minister M. Kulasegaran
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