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Sri Lanka nods to death penalty for drug related crimes and offences
Sri Lankan government approves the death penalty for drug-related offences, crimes
Sri Lankan government approves the death penalty for drug trafficking and drug-related offenders. Along with this, about 40 years later the country has opened the way for the restoration of the death penalty again.
Cabinet Minister Gamini Jayewkrish Perera told the media that President Mittal Sirisena had recently admitted the pressure of restoring the provision of punishment-e-death on him for curbing serious crimes.
The criminals who were serving the crime in drug trafficking were also running their business from within the jail. We can not leave them in jail to plot a plot to ruin the country. For this reason, a proposal for the death penalty was brought on which the cabinet has unanimously stampede. "
In Sri Lanka, the sentence of hanging has been banned since 1978. Earlier, 19 drug criminals were punished in Sri Lanka but their punishment was reduced. It is not clear now that under the new policy, they will be given life imprisonment or the death penalty.
