Malaysia studying Singapores drug law to review drug-related death sentence

The government is scrutinising Singapore's drug laws to review the death penalty in Malaysia's drug-related laws.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Paul Low Seng Kuan said it was perusing the republic's Misuse of Drugs Act in reforming the existing laws as reaction to public calls to review the death penalty.

He said there were equally strong voices of parties which supported the death penalty imposition on heinous crimes and those against the sentence.

"It is my hope that as much as we seriously value life, we must also look with the same conscientiousness into the issue of the death penalty," he said when officiating the 1st Asian Regional Congress on The Death Penalty here today.

The conference was attended by over 300 anti-death penalty advocates from around the world to discuss the contentious and important topic on the death penalty.