SARAWAK State Elections - What is the response of the government? What is the response of the DAP? PAS? PKR? Amanah? The candidates contesting?
Remember Kho Jabing is a Sarawakian? Not a Muslim maybe but certainly a 'Bumiputra'. Looking at the past reactions when a Muslim girl was facing the death penalty in China, one wonders whether ethnicity and religion has a bearing on how PAS, BN, PKR, DAP and others will react? If so, this is most disturbing... for we have do what a good human being would do - do the needful to ensure that life is spared...and call for the abolition of the Death Penalty...Remember our calls and actions can work for we were successful is saving Sabahan Vui Kong from being hanged in Singapore...
He may deserve to be punished - but do we want him to be hanged to death? Certainly not...
Of relevance that the re-sentencing High Court commutted his sentence, and the Court of Appeal in a split decision 3-2 decided that he be hanged to death. As such, 3 judges say hang him, and 3 judges say he should be imprisoned for life...
See the High Court judgment that decided that he should not be executed -
Kho Jabing - the High Court Judgment that sentenced him to life imprisonment - Save the Life of this Sarawakian?
Family of convicted murderer pleads for his life
Lenduk (second left) flanked by her brother Junggoh Baling (left),
brother-in-law Lunchong Gangsi (second right) and Jumai at the press
conference yesterday.
KUCHING: Anguished family members of
convicted murderer Jabing Kho, 32, are pleading with Sarawak leaders to
try and save him from the gallows by imploring Singapore President Tony
Tan to grant him clemency.
Jabing’s mother Lenduk Baling, 55, said
the family had exhausted every legal avenue to save her only son after
the Singapore Court of Appeal upheld Kho’s death sentence on April 5,
2016.
“We know that the odds are not in our favour. But we
(family) will try any means possible to overturn the death sentence
against my son to life imprisonment. I have lost my husband, I cannot
bear to lose my only son,” said Lenduk who fought back tears when
speaking at a press conference yesterday.
She also admitted to
have spoken to the Singaporean authorities by offering herself to
undergo the death sentence in place of her son.
Also speaking was
Jabing’s sister Jumai Kho, 28 who said the unfolding saga has become a
mentally and physically challenging ordeal for the family ever since her brother was arrested in the republic.
“We
are mentally and physically tired. Despite that fact, we will never
give up on our desire for Jabing not be imposed the death penalty but
granted clemency for life imprisonment,” said Jumai who together with
her mother arrived in Sarawak on April 13 after attending the sentencing
by the Singapore Court of Appeal on April 5.
She also said with
the backing from Sarawakian state assemblyman or members of parliament,
at least their voices in the republic would be louder.
“I am just a
sister and housewife. No one in Singapore is willing to hear the
pleading voices of mine or my mother’s,” she added.
Also present
at the press conference were representatives of the Advocates’
Association of Sarawak who called on the Malaysian government to support
any further application for clemency.
“We are not condoning the
actions by him (Jabing) but we are urging the government to do its
utmost to intercede with the Singaporean authorities to commute Jabing’s
death sentence to one of life imprisonment,” said association president
Leonard Sim explaining that their views were purely based on
humanitarian ground.
He said Minister in the Prime Minister’s
Department, Nancy Shukri and Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri
Adenan Satem had given their assurance that the State and Federal
Governments were doing all they could to save Jabing from the gallows.
Also
present were representatives from the Singapore Anti-Death Penalty
Campaign (SADPC) and We Believe in Second Chances who will be submitting
a petition within this next few days to the Singapore president to
grant clemency to Jabing.
Kirsten Han, a member of We Believe in
Second Chances during the press conference revealed that the last
clemency granted by the president was in 1998.
Both organisations,
she said would also be urging the Cabinet of the Republic of Singapore
to advise their president in granting the clemency as they strongly
believed that every human being deserved a second chance in life.
Jabing
was convicted of murder under Section 300 (c) of the Penal Code on May
24, 2011 which carried the mandatory death sentence at the time of
conviction.
In 2012, the Singapore parliament amended the Penal
Code to give judges the discretion to sentence offenders convicted under
Section 300 (c) to life imprisonment with caning.
On Nov 18, 2013, Justice Tay Yong Kwang resentenced Jabing to life imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane.
However
on Jan 14, 2015 the Court of Appeal by a majority decision (with two
out of the five judges dissenting) overturned Justice Tay’s decision and
sentenced Jabing to death.
Jabing was scheduled to be executed on
Nov 6, 2015 after his petition to president of Singapore for clemency
failed. However, the execution was temporarily stayed pending the
hearing on Nov 23, 2015 of his application to review and set aside the
sentence.
On April 5, 2016, the Court of Appeal upheld Jabing’s
death sentence, lifting the stay of execution that they had issued in
Nov 2015 after Jabing’s lawyer filed a criminal motion at the eleventh
hour.
Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2016/05/02/family-of-convicted-murderer-pleads-for-his-life/#ixzz47lDTkoOc
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