KUALA LUMPUR: Four crucial Bills were tabled in Dewan Rakyat to pave the way for the abolition of the mandatory death sentence while also criminalising live-streaming sex involving children.
The Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of law and institutional reforms Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said tabled the Bills for their first reading on Monday .
The Bill also proposes to do away with the court's discretion to impose death sentences for 10 offences and replace it with a punishment of imprisonment between 30 and 40 years including not more than six strokes of the rotan.The proposed laws under the Revision of Sentences of Death and Imprisonment for Natural Life Bill 2023, if passed, will act retrospectively.
The Bill also will allow the court to revise the natural life prison sentences imposed on 117 prisoners. The proposed law will also replace the term"child pornography" with"child abuse sexual material" in the parent Act.Meanwhile, the proposed amendment to the Evidence of Child Witness Bill 2023 will increase the age of a child witness from 16 to 18.
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