DEATH PENALTY - MALAYSIA : Sources & Figures Known

LAST REPORTED/KNOWN EXECUTIONS IN MALAYSIA - JULY/AUG 200

4/8/2006 - Mohd Amin Mohd Razali, the Al-Ma’unah movement leader who was sentenced to death for treason (Source: Star 5/8/2006, “Al-Ma’unah leader Mohd Amin hanged”)

*the week before - Zahid Muslim, Jemari Jusoh and Jamaludin Darus (Source: Star 5/8/2006, “Al-Ma’unah leader Mohd Amin hanged”)


Last December[2005], Deputy Internal Security Minister Chia Kwang Chye said that from 1960 through last October, 434 convicts were hanged while 172 cases were pending appeal.”


“The majority of the death sentences meted out are for drug trafficking. Out of 52 people sentenced to death from 2004 until July 2005, 36 were convicted for drug offences....Last December, Deputy Internal Security Minister Chia Kwang Chye said that from 1960 through last October, 434 convicts were hanged while 172 cases were pending appeal.”
(Source: IPS, 8/5/2006 : “DEATH PENALTY:Death to Malaysian Water Contaminators?”)

Since 1970, Malaysia has hanged 359 people, 40 of them in the last 10 years. Most were convicted of drug trafficking. There are 159 prisoners on death row. (Source: AsiaNews.it , 21/3/2006 “MALAYSIA
Justice Minister backs abolition of death penalty”)

WHEREAS Malaysia has hanged at least 358 persons between 1981 and 2005;...WHEREAS about 173 persons are on death row as at December 2005; (Malaysian Bar Resolution - 18/3/2006)

“On 6 December 2005, the Deputy Internal Security Minister disclosed in Parliament that 52 people were sentenced to death from 2004 until July. Of these, 36 were convicted for drug offences and 16 for murders. This disclosure brings the number of persons on death row to approximately 173. In November 2003, it was said that there were 121 persons, including 4 women, on the death row. It was disclosed in February 2005 that over the past 24 years 358 persons have been hanged in Malaysia. (MADPET 9/2/2006:-THE DEATH PENALTY MUST BE ABOLISHED, Malaysia Must Respect the Right To Life)