Malaysia
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The death penalty is provided for by various laws
- News items in the archive
- 970
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Malaysia is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 970 news items on Malaysia, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- NOVEMBER 4, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
On the death penalty for raping young children, veteran...
On the death penalty for raping young children, veteran social activist and Nation Crime Prevention Foundation chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said the punishment is only one part of the solution and that the more important aspect lies in education
- OCTOBER 24, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
The 539 people sentenced to death by hanging from 1957...
The 539 people sentenced to death by hanging from 1957 until now, including 313 Muslims, were accorded their religious rights before and after the sentence was carried out, Deputy Home Minister Datuk Zainal Abidin Zin said
- OCTOBER 21, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Mohamed Amin Mohd Razali, the al-Ma'unah leader, who...
Mohamed Amin Mohd Razali, the al-Ma'unah leader, who was sentenced to death for trying to wage war against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, appealed for the sentence to be reduced to life imprisonment on the basis that "the case was the first of its kind in the
- OCTOBER 7, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
The trial of a 13-year - old boy charged with the murder...
The trial of a 13-year - old boy charged with the murder of his tuition teacher's 11-year-old daughter commenced with a High Court direction that only those concerned with the case could be in court
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A 28-year-old electrical and telecommunications subcontractor...
A 28-year-old electrical and telecommunications subcontractor was sentenced to death by the High Court for trafficking in 315
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
More than 1,000 of the 13,060 drug offenders arrested...
More than 1,000 of the 13,060 drug offenders arrested during the first six months of 2002 were traffickers and face the death penalty upon conviction, according to statistics from the National Drug Agency
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A painter was sentenced to death by the High Court...
A painter was sentenced to death by the High Court in Ipoh, Malysia for trafficking in 420gm of ganja
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Sharif Kadir, a 56-year-old jobless man sentenced to...
Sharif Kadir, a 56-year-old jobless man sentenced to death for drug trafficking, escaped the gallows when the Court of Appeal allowed his appeal
- AUGUST 14, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Chan Chor Shun, 45, a businessman, was convicted and...
Chan Chor Shun, 45, a businessman, was convicted and sentenced to death by the Kuantan High Court on June 4, 1996, but today the Court of Appeal set aside the conviction and sentence against him
- AUGUST 11, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Businessman Alex Wong Teck Choy was sentenced to death...
Businessman Alex Wong Teck Choy was sentenced to death early in August for the murder of 27-year-old car spare parts assistant Seow Nan Keong
- AUGUST 6, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Nigerians Johnson Oshodi, Tunde Apatira, Oladotun Lukmanu...
Nigerians Johnson Oshodi, Tunde Apatira, Oladotun Lukmanu Umaru and a Chinese national from Hong Kong, Chu Tak Fai, appealed to the Malaysia Federal Court for a revision of their death sentences following a decision by the Court of Appeal acquitting mecha
- AUGUST 5, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indonesian carpenter escaped the gallows after the...
An Indonesian carpenter escaped the gallows after the Court of Appeal set aside the ganja trafficking conviction
- AUGUST 2, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A business man was sentenced to death by the High Court...
A business man was sentenced to death by the High Court for murdering a motor spare parts shop assistant outside a pub in Taman Thivy Jaya in Rasah here last year
- AUGUST 1, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court fixed October 7 for the trial of a 13-year-o...
The High Court fixed October 7 for the trial of a 13-year-o ld boy charged with the murder of his tuition teacher's 11-year-old daughter in May this year
- JULY 22, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A mother of six was duped into parting with RM50,000...
A mother of six was duped into parting with RM50,000 by a confidence trickster who claimed that he had the "connections" to help her son who is in death row
- JULY 13, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A 13-year-old boy pleaded not guilty in the High Court...
A 13-year-old boy pleaded not guilty in the High Court in Kuala Lumpur to murdering an 11-year-old girl at her house at Taman Seri Rampai in Wangsa Maju
- JULY 13, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A labourer burst into tears when he escaped the gallows...
A labourer burst into tears when he escaped the gallows for trafficking in cannabis, simply because the prosecution failed to tender a fingerprint report
- JULY 10, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Fresh from passing state laws prescribing stoning,...
Fresh from passing state laws prescribing stoning, whipping and amputation, a fundamentalist party has vowed to impose harsh Islamic laws across Malaysia if it wins power
- JULY 10, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
The hudud bill passed in Terengganu on July 8 is a...
The hudud bill passed in Terengganu on July 8 is a Bill which metes flawed justice, and a political ploy to assist Pas retain the confidence of the Terengganu voters in 2003 or 2004
- JULY 10, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
The hudud bill passed in Terengganu on July 8 is a...
The hudud bill passed in Terengganu on July 8 is a Bill which metes flawed justice, and a political ploy to assist Pas retain the confidence of the Terengganu voters in 2003 or 2004
- JULY 8, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Islamic hardliners running Malaysia's eastern Terengganu...
Islamic hardliners running Malaysia's eastern Terengganu state passed criminal laws allowing amputation and death by stoning, ignoring protests they breached the constitution and human rights
- JULY 8, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A 24-year-old man was sentenced to death by a High...
A 24-year-old man was sentenced to death by a High Court in Malaysia after he was found guilty of murdering a Felda settler
- JULY 5, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Three men were sentenced to death by the High Court...
Three men were sentenced to death by the High Court in Kuala Lumpur after they were found guilty of trafficking in 61
- JUNE 27, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Three Nigerians sentenced to death in Malaysia for...
Three Nigerians sentenced to death in Malaysia for dadah trafficking in 1995 are seeking to revise the decision of the Federal Court affirming their penalty
- JUNE 22, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A barber from Hong Kong whose death sentence for dadah...
A barber from Hong Kong whose death sentence for dadah trafficking was upheld by the Federal Court last year is seeking a review of his conviction because the chemist who analysed the dadah sample had failed to state its actual weight
- JUNE 11, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Special Investiga tion/Legal Section Narcotics Department...
Special Investiga tion/Legal Section Narcotics Department Supt Nooryah Mohd Anvar said that since the implementation of the mandatory death sentence and life imprisonment for drug offences in 1975, 155 Malaysians and 45 foreigners were hanged under Sectio
- JUNE 11, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Toh Su Kuan, a mechanic sentenced to death in 1998...
Toh Su Kuan, a mechanic sentenced to death in 1998 for having 356 packets of heroin strapped to his torso and stuffed in his shoes was acquitted by the Court of Appeal on the basis that the prosecution had not proved that he had known what he was carrying
- JUNE 7, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A 13-year-old boy was charged in the Magistrate's Court...
A 13-year-old boy was charged in the Magistrate's Court in Kuala Lumpur with murder of an 11-year-old girl at her house in Taman Seri Rampai in Wangsa Maju
- MAY 31, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Malaysia's main opposition party promised an Islamic...
Malaysia's main opposition party promised an Islamic state for the multi-racial country but left vague its stance on strict religious laws and capital punishment for majority Muslim Malays
- MAY 2, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A Nigerian national, Everest Uka, was sentenced to...
A Nigerian national, Everest Uka, was sentenced to death by hanging after a Malaysian court convicted him of trafficking 583