Sri Lanka To Resume Executions After 42-year Hiatus: Maithripala Sirisena

Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena announced on Wednesday that he had approved the execution of four people on death row after being convicted for drug trafficking, ending a 42-year-long moratorium on the application of the death penalty in the country. “I have already signed death penalty for four (convicts). It will be implemented soon and we have already decided the date as well,” Sirisena was quoted as saying by Efe news, adding that all four were drug related convicts. (IANS)

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