MARCH 28 ― Yesterday I watched in gratitude and awe as the Minister of Law Datuk Seri Azalina Othman and Deputy Minister Ramkarpal Singh, tabled the first reading of the...
MARCH 28 ― Yesterday I watched in gratitude and awe as the Minister of Law Datuk Seri Azalina Othman and Deputy Minister Ramkarpal Singh, tabled the first reading of the amendments to abolish the mandatory death penalty in Malaysia. It has been 10 years that I have been lobbying and campaigning to see a Malaysia free from the death penalty and this is certainly having one foot in the door.
I have been reading reactionary comments on social media on the government’s step to abolish the mandatory death penalty and realised how little Malaysians know about the death penalty here, and this is understandable because it is a rather large subject and covers many aspects and not just the death penalty alone but has not been discussed in the manner that it should.
It is a known fact, in Malaysia and in many countries, of the double standard treatment of those who have committed crimes, even petty ones. A mother stealing Milo or a father stealing “petai” for their hungry families are usually dealt swiftly by the long arm of the law but many a time, the powerful, privileged and the highly connected are often let off with a sentence that doesn’t match the crime.
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