Close to 900 death row prisoners spared execution as of Oct 14

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 866 death row prisoners have been spared as of 14 October this year, said Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said.

The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) stated that 52 of these prisoners had their death sentences commuted to imprisonment after successfully appealing their cases at the Court of Appeal.