Former police commando Azilah Hadri, convicted of the 2006 murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, is awaiting a Federal Court decision on whether his death sentence will be commuted to...
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Luxury condos, Chinese temples and dead owners’ vehicles as modus operandi: Cops bust three drug rings in KL and Muar, seize over RM24m worth of narcoticsFormer police commando Azilah Hadri, convicted of the 2006 murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, is awaiting a Federal Court decision on whether his death sentence will be commuted to a prison term under the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act.
Today, the 48-year-old will know if the Federal Court would allow for his death sentence to be commuted to lifetime imprisonment of between 30 to 40 years.Azilah’s application to review his death sentence follows the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act, which came into force on July 4, 2023, where mandatory death sentences for offences such as drug trafficking and murder have been removed.
The review of prisoners who are on death row began in November 2023, when the first batch of inmates — who had exhausted all available appeals — had their death sentence and natural-life imprisonment commuted with life imprisonment. In December 2019, Azilah had applied for a retrial and review of his 2015 conviction, but a five-man Federal Court panel led by then Chief Judge of Malaya Tan Sri Azahar Mohamed unanimously
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