Govt to decide on prisoner execution moratorium - Ramkarpal

The government will need to decide on whether to continue its moratorium on executing prisoners sentenced to death, said Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Ramkarpal Singh.

It has to confront this issue once Parliament passes a bill aimed at abolishing the mandatory death penalty, which is expected to be introduced for first reading in the Dewan Rakyat on Monday.

The new law will...