COMMENT | Former inspector-general of police Abdul Rahim Noor does not seem to appreciate the irony of his suggestion to hold a referendum on the abolition of the death penalty.

For was it not he who “slapped, punched and karate-kicked the former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, causing him to pass out on the floor” in 1998? Anwar's lawyer, Karpal Singh commented: "This was an assault on a defenceless man who was blindfolded, handcuffed at the back and assaulted."...