PETALING JAYA: When death row inmate Shahrul Izani Suparman’s mother heard that her son was spared the hangman’s noose, she froze in shock. Sapenah Nawawi was informed of the news last Monday at the Sungai Buloh prison where Shahrul has been held for 14 years. Shahrul Izani, 33, who was sentenced to death for a drug trafficking offence in 2009, received a new lease of life after Selangor Ruler Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah approved his clemency appeal. In September 2003, the then 19-year-old Shahrul Izani, the fifth in a family of eight children who worked as a restaurant help, was arrested at a roadblock in Klang after being found with 622gm of cannabis. Amnesty International Malaysia took up Shahrul Izani’s case, appealing to the Selangor Pardons Board to commute the death sentence.

Source: The Star February 27, 2017 23:52 UTC