COMMENT | Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (Madpet) notes sadly that on May 29, the Federal Court upheld the death sentence of a former businessman for the murder of a UUM graduate 18 years ago.

The court dismissed Shahril Jaafar’s review application to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment under the Revision of Sentence of Death and Imprisonment for Natural Life (Temporary Jurisdiction of the Federal Court) Act 2023.

It must be noted that in most cases...