The amendment will see judges having discretionary power not to impose death penalty on drug trafficking offences. “Gerakan welcomes the amendment to DDA to abolish mandatory death penalty for drug traffickers. “We have made our stand clear and even organised a campaign to call for abolition of death penalty since 2013. At the same time, he said there was concern over the DDA amendment that public prosecutor was granted too much power. He stressed the importance in ensuring the objective and spirit of the DDA amendment to abolish the mandatory death penalty on drug trafficking offences was not ‘hijacked’ by technical flaws.

Source: New Strait Times November 24, 2017 12:22 UTC