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KUALA LUMPUR (March 27): A Bill that will make the death penalty an option and not mandatory anymore has been tabled for its first reading in Parliament today. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said also tabled revisions to the de

PETALING JAYA: The government has decided that the courts will now have an option to impose life imprisonment when dealing with cases that now have only the mandatory death penalty, says Ramkarpal Singh.

A TOTAL of 840 death row inmates will escape the gallows when a new law is created to do away with mandatory death sentences, said Ram­kar­pal Singh.

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 840 death row inmates will be directly impacted when a new law is created once the mandatory death sentence is abolished, says Ramkarpal Singh.

PETALING JAYA: A review is being done on previous proposals for alternative punishment for the 1,327 inmates on death row following the move to abolish the mandatory death penalty, says Ramkarpal Singh.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Cabinet on Wednesday (Dec 21) agreed to continue with reviewing laws related to the mandatory death penalty, says Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said.

PETALING JAYA: Proposed alternate sentences for 34 offences that carry the death penalty have been reviewed by the Attorney Generals' Chambers, says Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said.

KUALA LUMPUR: Another two men have been charged in the Magistrate’s Court here with kidnapping a Palestinian man to solicit information on software to hack mobile phones.

Another two men were charged in the Magistrate’s Court here Wednesday with kidnapping a Palestinian man to solicit information on software to hack mobile phones

KUALA LUMPUR: Another two men were charged in the Magistrate’s Court here on Wednesday (Oct 26) with kidnapping a Palestinian man to solicit information on software to hack mobile phones.