MALAYSIA: DEATH ROW DUO WANT TO GET IT OVER QUICKLY

two men on Death Row in Malaysia declared they would not be seeking clemency from the Pardons Board. Debt collector G. Krishna Rao and brother-in-law, ex-cop M. Rajendran, said the 10-year appeal process had taken its toll on them and they preferred to be hanged soon. They said this moments after the Federal Court reaffirmed the death sentence on the two men for the murder of four people in Ipoh 11 years ago. "The long wait has affected me, my family and other relatives," Krishna Rao, 39, told the New Straits Times. Rajendran, 43, said being on Death Row had sapped him mentally and emotionally. "I cannot bear living in solitary confinement anymore," he said. Krishna Rao, Rajendran and goldsmith K. Kumaresan, then 24, were jointly charged with the murders of S. Veeramah, 48, her son N. Sathian, 15, and Indonesian maid Juriyah Sariyah, 35, in 1998.