AN AUSTRALIAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING IN MALAYSIA
ACcording to James Griffiths of CNN, An Australian woman has been sentenced tobdeath by hanging after a Malaysian Court overturned an earlier acquittal of drug smuggling charges.
A three-judge panel unanimously three-hour the previous ruling in 54-year-old Maria Elvira Pinto Expiation's case, her lawyers told CNN.
"An appeal will be filed in the Federal Court---the final appeal," Lawyer Mohammed Shafee said, who added his client was a strong person."
The grandmother and mother of four was arrested in December 2014 while transiting through the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpar on a flight from Shanghai to Melbourne.
She was found in possession of 1.1 Kilos (2.4 ib) of Crystal Methamphetamine and faced a mandatory death penalty under Malaysia's draconian drugs laws. She claims to have been duped by a man she met online.
Drug trafficking is among nine classes of crime, including murder and treason. Which still bear the Death Penalty in Malaysia. According to the Cornell Centre on Death Penalty worldwide, the country carried out four executions in 2017, down from the year before.
A three-judge panel unanimously three-hour the previous ruling in 54-year-old Maria Elvira Pinto Expiation's case, her lawyers told CNN.
"An appeal will be filed in the Federal Court---the final appeal," Lawyer Mohammed Shafee said, who added his client was a strong person."
The grandmother and mother of four was arrested in December 2014 while transiting through the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpar on a flight from Shanghai to Melbourne.
She was found in possession of 1.1 Kilos (2.4 ib) of Crystal Methamphetamine and faced a mandatory death penalty under Malaysia's draconian drugs laws. She claims to have been duped by a man she met online.
Drug trafficking is among nine classes of crime, including murder and treason. Which still bear the Death Penalty in Malaysia. According to the Cornell Centre on Death Penalty worldwide, the country carried out four executions in 2017, down from the year before.