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PETALING JAYA: Malaysia is heading in the "right direction" with the government's decision to abolish the mandatory death sentence with a substitute sentence to be imposed at the discretion of the courts, says social activist Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.

Malaysia’s Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Wan Junadi Tuanku Jaafar said capital punishment would be replaced by other types of punishment at the court’s discretion.

THERE have been numerous calls for the mandatory death penalty in Malaysia to be abolished.