Amnesty International"Executions for drug-related offences contravene international human rights law. Drug- related offences do not meet the threshold of the ‘most serious crimes’ for which the death penalty can be imposed under international law.
There is no evidence that the death penalty is any more effective as a deterrent to crime that terms of imprisonment.
On the occasion of the 2015 World Day against the Death Penalty, I call on authorities in Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia:
• to end the use of the death penalty for these offences as a first step towards abolition;
• to commute all existing death sentences for drug- related offences.
I call on Malaysian authorities to grant clemency to Shahrul Izani, who was sentenced to death after he was found in possession of 622g of cannabis when he was 19 years old."
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