COMMENT | The Federal Court had agreed to commute Azilah Hadri's death sentence to 40 years imprisonment plus 12 strokes of the cane for the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu in 2006.

Be that as it may, the former police commando somehow managed to escape the gallows as he will no longer have to face the death penalty over the grotesque murder.

Azilah was 30 and he was with the police’s special action unit when a murder charge was slapped on him in 2006, he was 39 when the Federal Court decided that both he and fellow police commando Sirul Azhar Umar were guilty of the crime.

Legally speaking in deciding to commute Azilah's sentence, the apex court was merely...