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CA commutes teenager’s death penalty to 7-year-jail

The Court of Appeal has commuted the death sentence of a teenager to seven-year imprisonment after taking into consideration the new amendments brought to the Penal Code in 2021 that death sentence should not be pronounced against a person who is under the age of 18 years, at the time of the commission of an offence.
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