Global Report: Death sentences and executions 2024

Amnesty International’s monitoring of the global use of the death penalty recorded
1,518 executions in 2024, an increase by 32% from 1,153 in 2023. For the second
consecutive year, executing countries reached the lowest number on record. Malaysia has not carried out executions since 2018, but without full abolition, it remains among the 54 retentionist countries—preventing it from joining the global majority of 145 countries that have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.

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The unparalleled escalation of the conflict between Israel and Hamas and other armed groups has taken a devastating toll on civilians. The level of casualties is unprecedented. Countless lives have been shattered, ripped apart, and upended. 

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Urge the Malaysian government to support the commutation of Pannir Selvam ‘s death sentence in Singapore

Pannir Selvam is one of several Malaysian nationals currently on death row in Singapore. In 2017, aged 29, he was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty for importing just over 50g of diamorphine (heroin) – an offence that does not meet the threshold of the “most serious crimes” to which the use of the death penalty must be restricted under international law and standards.

Sign the petition and call on the Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs to intervene to secure the commutation of the death sentence imposed on Malaysian national Pannir Selvam and others facing execution in Singapore.

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