The high court in Shah Alam, just outside Kuala Lumpur, handed the sentence to Marivelle Gonzales for trafficking a kilo of drugs, mostly heroin, into the country 2 years ago, the Bernama news agency reported.
The 31-year-old Filipina said a man had offered her $1,000, a work permit and $250 in expenses to bring in a bag containing the drugs.
Her lawyer could not be reached for comment.
Meanwhile, Ani Anggraeni, an Indonesian working in the northern state of Penang as a domestic helper, was convicted Friday, September 28, of trafficking nearly 4 kilos (9 pounds) of methamphetamine on June 21 last year, The Star newspaper reported.
She had testified she went to see her daughter in Vietnam and met a friend "Dwi" who asked her to carry two bags on her flight to Penang, to be passed to another friend.
"Her story makes no sense and I don't think her friend 'Dwi' even exists," the English daily quoted the judge, Mohd Amin Firdaus Abdullah, as saying.
The court decisions are the latest in a clampdown by Malaysian authorities on alleged foreign drug traffickers but the mandatory death penalty has mostly been meted out on men.
A Kuala Lumpur court in August charged 10 Iranians, an Uzbek and a local with trafficking methamphetamine.
An Australian nurse and Nigerian man were also charged with trafficking drugs in July, in a case that attracted media attention worldwide.
Since 1960, more than 440 people have been executed in Malaysia, including two Australians sentenced to death in 1986 for heroin trafficking -- the first Westerners to be executed under tough anti-drug laws.-Rappler (September 29, 2012 4:56PM)
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