A Japanese lady on death row for medication trafficking in Malaysia will certainly appeal for a lower penalty, her attorney has actually stated, via a just recently passed law permitting such detainees to request the nation’s highest possible court for sentence decrease.
Mariko Takeuchi, 49, shed her appeal at the Federal Court in 2015, which maintained reduced court judgments in which the previous registered nurse was punished to hang for trafficking 3.5 kilos of methamphetamine right into Malaysia in 2009.
The new law permitting detainees punished to death or life jail time to look for lowered sentences, entered pressure Tuesday as component of the judicial reform that got rid of necessary death sentencing for 11 severe offenses, consisting of medication trafficking, murder and also terrorism.
Takeuchi affirmed at test that she did not recognize concerning the medications discovered in a travel suitcase she brought to Kuala Lumpur International Airport from …