PUTRAJAYA, July 1 — The Federal Court has upheld the death sentence imposed on a former pathologist colonel for the murder of Deputy Public Prosecutor Datuk Anthony Kevin Morais in 2015.

PUTRAJAYA, May 14 — The Federal Court has reserved its verdict on the final appeals by six men convicted and sentenced to death for the 2015 murder of Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Datuk Anthony Kevin Morais, whose body was found in a concrete-filled drum.

PUTRAJAYA, April 25 — The Federal Court has vacated the hearing of the prosecution’s review application challenging the top court’s earlier 2-1 majority ruling that it (the Federal Court) has the jurisdiction to review death sentences that had been imposed on four prisoners whose sentences have been commuted by the Pardons Boards.

COLUMBIA, March 8 — South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday, the first use of the method in the United States (US) in 15 years.

PUTRAJAYA, March 6 — The Court of Appeal has commuted the death sentence of an unemployed man to 30 years imprisonment for the murder of a dental technologist seven years ago.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 18 — The Federal Court was told today that the conviction and the death sentence imposed on six former National Defence University of Malaysia (UPNM) students for the murder of Royal Malaysian Navy cadet officer Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain is unsafe and should be set aside.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 15 — The Federal Court has commuted the death sentence of former lorry driver Jaafar Ngamil to 34 years in prison for strangling his girlfriend's husband to death.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 7 — The Federal Court has commuted the death sentence of a former sawmill worker to 40 years in prison for killing and raping a nurse nine years ago.

PUTRAJAYA, July 27 — The death sentence handed down by the Court of Appeal to six former students of the National Defence University (UPNM) for the murder of Naval Cadet Officer Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain seven years ago is appropriate and just, said the Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF).

PUTRAJAYA, July 23 — The parents of Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM) cadet officer Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain wept and performed the 'sujud syukur' (prostration of gratitude) after the Court of Appeal upheld the death sentence imposed on six former fellow students for his murder seven years ago.

PUTRAJAYA, April 29 — An odd job worker who was found guilty for killing his village friend and living with the corpse for four days, had his death sentence commuted to 30 years’ jail by the Court of Appeal today.

PUTRAJAYA, March 14 — The Court of Appeal here today upheld the death sentence of six men convicted of murdering Deputy Public Prosecutor Datuk Anthony Kevin Morais nine years ago.

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 17 — The Federal Court’s three-member panel today rejected an Indonesian man’s review application to commute his death sentence for killing his three young daughters, to life imprisonment.

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 11 — A former palm oil estate worker, who beheaded his co-worker for the purpose of getting his skull as part of a ritual to secure a winning lottery ticket, had his death sentence commuted to 35 years in jail.

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 14 — A former security guard escaped the gallows when the Federal Court here today commuted his death sentence to 33 years in prison and 12 strokes of the cane, for the murder of his 17-year-old lover eight years ago.

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 2 — The Federal Court today upheld the death sentence on a businessman who murdered his ex-fiancee before dumping her body into a river seven years ago.

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 1 — The Federal Court today upheld the death sentence of a car cleaner for murdering his female cousin five years ago.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has written to his Singapore counterpart Lee Hsien Loong seeking leniency in the case of a Malaysian scheduled to be hanged for drug trafficking, it was learned today.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 14 — Parliament has the power to enact legislation on offences and to prescribe punishments for the offences, including the mandatory death penalty, ruled the Federal Court, here, in a majority decision, yesterday.