Malaysia

While Singapore picked up the pace of executions in 2022, the building public pressure against the death penalty in Malaysia has led the government to announce that it will abolish the mandatory death penalty, and that a review of the death penalty regime as a whole is under way.

Campaigns in Malaysia against the execution of individuals in Singapore

Mongolia

On 1 July 2017, Mongolia became the 105th country to put an end to the inhuman practice of the death penalty.

"As other countries in the Asia Pacific region continue to execute or even contemplate reinstating the death penalty, in clear violation of their international law obligations, Mongolia’s journey over the past decade is not only illustrative of the overwhelming global trend in favour of the abolition of the death penalty, but also of the critical importance that political leadership plays in driving human rights change."