Chapter 3 - Report of the Research and Policy Development Group Figure 1: Choice of Alternative Sentence to Replace Mandatory Death Penalty 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 53 14.4 9.2 6 5 4 1.6 1.8 2.8 2.5 N o oi e ice or yf st ad ju m ive lic vio tc rim n m ha r fo t ol n le tr h g in pp hi at de w n co ng al ci li ol tr so ce of n co en s s al ry d s ar an ife ll ra to ye da in an 30 s tu ar na ye im m cr m nt se of of 30 or tf en r fo n ed po as ce e at tiv -b io ive at at lit gr or ch st c fe Re Ef le ro Pa te in bi em m or tf or tf en m en on st is sy pr le im ha Re Re ib ex Fl fe Li m on is pr on is im pr Im fe Li e e tiv ni pu r de ur s rm fo (b) Campaign against Death Penalty The Commission engaged with the European Union (EU) Delegation to Malaysia and the Bar Council in working for the abolition of the death penalty. In March, a student debate ‘To Promote the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Malaysia’ was held in Kuala Lumpur as a followup programme to the public seminar on ‘Abolition of the Death Penalty’ held in October 2011. The purpose was to raise awareness among youth on the relevance of the abolition of the death penalty. Dato’ Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, officiated at the debate. As part of the campaign, the Commission, the EU Delegation and the Bar Council collaborated to organise a pleading competition on the death penalty for students of the law faculties of public and private universities in the Klang Valley. A road show and screening of a documentary, ‘Death in Dilemma: The Final Curtain’, were held in tandem with the competition. The participating universities were Universiti Malaya, HELP University, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Taylor’s University College, Brickfield Asia College and International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). 86