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    Women legislators of Sri Lanka demand to re-impose death penalty

    Colombo: Sri Lanka ruling Party legislator Sudharsani Fernandopulle says that 13 female MPs in the parliament will demand for re-implementing the death penalty.

    She further stated that many of the female MPs of Sri Lanka parliaments had agreed to it.

    She said that collecting of the signatures for a petition requesting the President Mahinda Rajapaksa to allow the death penalty commenced Monday. The petition is to be handed over to the President within the next week.

    Sri Lanka has enacted the death sentence for serious crimes but the President who is the final authority for the implementation of death penalty has not warranted it.

    The government has earlier said that it is conducting a public opinion poll on the re-imposing of death penalty to evaluate whether the measure would deter the crimes committed on its citizenry.

    The government reinstated the death penalty in 2004 for murder, rape and drug trafficking following the murder of a high court judge.

    However, since 2000 there are 1,164 death row inmates languishing in jails waiting for execution or a final decision for commutation for execution. Some prisoners on death row at the moment have served over 15 years while waiting for their sentences to be carried out.

    http://www.colombopage.com/archive_1...31607416CH.php
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    Rapid increase in convicts with death penalty in Sri Lanka

    COLOMBO (Xinhua) -- Sri Lankan prisons have received a massive number of death penalty convicts since the beginning of 2012, a prison spokesman said on Tuesday.

    From January the two main prisons in the country have received 43 convicts of capital punishment mainly for murder and drug trafficking, the officer said.

    "This is a massive increase compared to 40 convicts of death penalty reported during the first four months in 2011," and most of them were convicted for murder and among them was a woman convict, he said.

    The rapid increase of the convicts was reported amidst protest by female legislators of Sri Lanka's ruling party who demand for re-implementation of the death penalty.

    Since 1970s, there have been no executions, although death sentences were handed down continuously by the High and Supreme Courts.

    Since 2000 there are 1,164 death row inmates languishing in jails waiting for a final decision for commutation for execution. Some death convicts have spent more than 15 years in jail.

    Sri Lanka is now conducting a public opinion poll to evaluate whether the death penalty would bring down the increasing crime rate in the country.

    http://english.sina.com/world/2012/0320/450479.html

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    Female applicants for the vacant executioner position in Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka Prisons Commissioner General P.W. Kodippili says that Sri Lankans have showed a keen interest to the post of executioner that has been vacant for some time.

    He said that a large number of applications had been received although applications had not been called for the posts of executioner. He says that there are also applications from women for the post.

    The official said that the applications would be kept in file until the applications are called formally.

    Sri Lanka's prisons have vacancies for two executioners.

    Although Sri Lanka's courts impose death penalty for serious crimes, the President does not grant leave to proceed with the conviction.

    The government reinstated the death penalty in 2004 for murder, rape and drug trafficking following the murder of a high court judge.

    However, since 2000 there are 1,164 death row inmates languishing in jails waiting for execution or a final decision for commutation for execution. Some prisoners on death row at the moment have served over 15 years while waiting for their sentences to be carried out.

    Last execution was carried out in Sri Lanka in 1976.

    There is a public demand to implement death penalty to curb the rise of crimes.

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    Sri Lanka Prisons Department to recruit two executioners to implement the death sentences

    July 08, Colombo: Sri Lanka Prisons Department announced that the notification calling for applications for two posts of executioner at Sri Lanka prisons would be published on July 11.

    The Prisons Department said it had already received 150 applications since the vacation of posts of the two executioners were announced. Among the applicants, there is a family member of a former executioner also, sources at the Prisons Department said. Sri Lanka had a practice of inheriting the post of executioner from father to son. Sri Lanka judiciary delivers death penalty for the serious crimes such as murder and drug dealing and around 200 persons wait in the death row until their sentence is implemented.

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    What is the method of execution there?

    Hanging?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heidi View Post
    Really, it's hanging.
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    LOL! Why not use an elephant?

    This way you save money on the executioner!

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    I imagine the therapy and medication for the elephant wasn't cost effective!
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    Joking aside, execution by elephant = BRUTAL!

    Elephants were widely used across the Indian subcontinent and south-east Asia as a method of execution. The English sailor Robert Knox, writing in 1681, described a method of execution by elephant which he had seen while being held captive in Sri Lanka. Knox says the elephants he witnessed had their tusks fitted with "sharp Iron with a socket with three edges". After impaling the victim's body with its tusks, the elephant "then tear it in pieces, and throw it limb from limb".

    The 19th century traveller James Emerson Tennent comments that "a Kandyan [Sri Lankan] chief, who was witness to such scenes, has assured us that the elephant never once applied his tusks, but, placing his foot on the prostrate victim, plucked off his limbs in succession by a sudden movement of his trunk." Knox's book depicts exactly this method of execution in a famous drawing, "An Execution by an Eliphant".




    Writing in 1850, the British diplomat Sir Henry Charles Sirr described a visit to one of the elephants that had been used by Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, the last king of Kandy, to execute criminals. Crushing by elephant had been abolished by the British after they overthrew the Kandyan kingdom in 1815 but the king's execution elephant was still alive and evidently remembered its former duties. Sirr comments:

    During the native dynasty it was the practice to train elephants to put criminals to death by trampling upon them, the creatures being taught to prolong the agony of the wretched sufferers by crushing the limbs, avoiding the vital parts. With the last tyrant king of Candy, this was a favourite mode of execution and as one of the elephant executioners was at the former capital during our sojourn there we were particularly anxious to test the creature's sagacity and memory. The animal was mottled and of enormous size, and was quietly standing there with his keeper seated upon his neck; the noble who accompanied us desired the man to dismount and stand on one side.

    The chief then gave the word of command, ordering the creature to 'slay the wretch!' The elephant raised his trunk, and twined it, as if around a human being; the creature then made motions as if he were depositing the man on the earth before him, then slowly raised his back-foot, placing it alternately upon the spots where the limbs of the sufferer would have been. This he continued to do for some minutes; then, as if satisfied that the bones must be crushed, the elephant raised his trunk high upon his head and stood motionless; the chief then ordered him to 'complete his work,' and the creature immediately placed one foot, as if upon the man's abdomen, and the other upon his head, apparently using his entire strength to crush and terminate the wretch's misery.
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