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A Pakatan Harapan lawmaker has rebutted claims by human rights groups that the government was making a U-turn on the abolition of the death penalty.
He noted that Lawyers For Liberty had accused the government of making a U-turn while Malaysians against Death Penalty and Torture called for the abolition of the death penalty in full. "It was clearly stated that in page 61 of the English version, under Promise 27: 'the Harapan government will revoke the following laws: Mandatory death by hanging in all Acts'," he said in a statement today.
He noted that several online surveys have found strong public support for retaining the death penalty but giving discretion to judges."This is definitely a very biased view to generalise the stupidity of 1,267 death row inmates who thought they could escape justice," he said.
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