Malaysia’s repeal of the mandatory death penalty for crimes such as drug trafficking and terrorism came into effect on Tuesday, while activists called for a review of capital punishment sentences already awarded for these crimes.
The measure, bringing a reform in the country’s penal code, was approved by the parliament in April but came into effect Tuesday.
The legislature approved imposing sentences of up to 40 years in prison for crimes that previously would result in the death sentence as the only punishment.
Despite the reform, which paves the way for a hypothetical complete abolition, judges will still be able to impose the death penalty in cases they deem fit.
Rights watchdog Amnesty International welcomed the regulatory change which it described as a step towards the complete abolition of the death penalty.
However, the nonprofit underlined they were still waiting for Justice Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail to announce the date for the start of the “review” process of more than a thousand prisoners on death row.
Malaysia has been applying a moratorium on executions since 2018, although death sentences continued to be imposed on 11 crimes, among them drug trafficking, murder, terrorism, kidnapping and weapons possession.
(John) Oliver also pointed out how Milei has been extremely vocal on other subjects no one asked for, including sharing details about his sex life. He told multiple women in a TV interview in 2018 that he ejaculates only once every three months. “I completely believe that the guy we saw screaming at dead economists, smashing miniature banks on TV and waving a chainsaw in the streets may be a little — and I’m sorry for saying this — backed up,” Oliver said.
How will this address Argentina’s tumultuous economy? Oh wait. It won’t. He’s a right-wing populist and everyone said he would do shit like this but humans were bamboozled yet again by the confusing reality of right wing politicians doing things against the interest of the working class. It’s not like we have decades upon decades of world history to draw from that says that voting Conservative is a vote against your best interests, both socially and economically.
Who’s got “suspend elections to remain in power and become a dictatorship” on their Argentina Bingo Card? I’m betting that will come when his term in office is up.
The text does not present any defense in the event of rape
For a change, anti-abortionists are consistent. It makes no sense that they claim that fetuses are babies subject to rights, but also almost always that it is okay to abort them for rape.
Most of them are just neoliberals who are upset there’s still a handful of regulations stopping them from going full psycopath in the name of record profits.
In my experience, Libertarians are generally white men under the delusion that equality under law functionally exists already. That ideological principle matters more than actual systems and structures of equality. That their tax dollars should only fund the street they live on. Anything beyond that breaches their individual rights. It seems to make sense until you think, at all.
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