Malaysia government agrees to abolish death penalty in move hailed by rights groups

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More than 1,200 people on death row in the Asian country could now be spared as the government moves to scrap capital punishment.

 

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Hopefully paedophiles, rapists and murderers are excluded, and will still be put to death.

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