KUALA LUMPUR: The European Union (EU) has welcomed Malaysia’s move to abolish the mandatory death penalty as an necessary step in the direction of the whole abolition of capital punishment according to worldwide tendencies.
EU spokesperson for overseas affairs and safety coverage Nabila Massrali mentioned the EU is trying ahead to swift transformation of this resolution into regulation by the Malaysian authorities.
She mentioned the EU stands prepared to help Malaysia in its efforts to fully abolish the death penalty.
“As a matter of precept, the European Union strongly opposes the death penalty always and in all circumstances.
“The death penalty violates the inalienable proper to life and is the last word merciless, inhuman punishment, which fails to act as a deterrent to crime and represents an unacceptable denial of human dignity and integrity,” she mentioned in an announcement printed on its web site on Saturday (June 11).
She added that the EU would proceed to work for the abolition of the death penalty within the few remaining nations that also apply it.
Malaysia on Friday had agreed to abolish the mandatory death penalty and to substitute it with different sentences, topic to the discretion of the court docket.
The authorities mentioned additional research could be carried out on the proposed substitute sentence for 11 offences carrying the mandatory death penalty, one among which is beneath part 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 and 22 offences carrying the death penalty however with the discretion of the court docket. – Bernama
