Malaysia urged to abolish death penalty by inmates’ familiesKUALA LUMPUR: Families and friends of death row inmates petitioned the Malaysian government to repeal its mandatory death penalty on Friday. “They are feeling very sad,” one friend of a death row inmate told Arab News. Kasthuri Patto, a politician from the Democratic Action Party who attended last month’s World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Brussels is an advocate for the abolition of the death penalty, but emphasized the need for awareness and education on the matter. “Abolishing the mandatory death penalty is a secondary thing,” he said. For me, they should give families hope that they will be reunited with their loved ones on death row,” he said.

Source: Ethiopian News March 29, 2019 15:33 UTC