Malaysia’s apex court has commuted the death sentences and natural-life prison terms of 11 people convicted of drug trafficking, including two foreigners, in the first reviews conducted since the country’s abolition of the mandatory death penalty earlier this year. In a ruling yesterday, state news agency Bernama reported that a three-judge panel at the Federal … Read more
Advertisement Social media in Vietnam is currently flooded with calls to save death-row inmate Nguyễn Văn Chưởng. Arrested in 2007, Chưởng was sentenced to death for masterminding the murder and robbery of a police officer and has spent 15 years on death row. Since his conviction, Chưởng and his family have continued to claim his … Read more
TheStarsHub — A Singaporean man convicted of trying to traffic around 2.2 pounds of cannabis was executed on Wednesday, a sentence lambasted by rights groups and campaigners for its severity at a time when many other nations, including neighboring countries, have adopted a more lenient approach towards drugs and capital punishment. While cannabis has been … Read more