Let judges alone decide life or death for drug traffickers, says PKR MP


Padang Serai MP N. Surendran, a lawyer by profession, says the amendment would give power of life or death to the attorney-general and breach separation of powers. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, November 23, 2017.

THE new drug law amendments to give judges discretion to sentence drug traffickers to life imprisonment do not adequately address the mandatory death penalty, says a PKR lawmaker.

Padang Serai MP N. Surendran, a lawyer by profession, said the amendment would give power of life or death to the attorney-general and breach separation of powers.


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