Page 3 of 5 FirstFirst 12345 LastLast
Results 21 to 30 of 41

Thread: Sri Lanka

  1. #21
    Administrator Heidi's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Posts
    33,217
    Death row prisoners protest on Sri Lankan jail rooftop

    A group of death row prisoners at a Sri Lankan jail are staging a protest on its rooftop demanding their release, officials said on Saturday.

    “There are 27 inmates on rooftop. They demand they be freed,” Bogambara prison spokesman Gamini Kulatunga said, adding that all of them protesting at the jail in Kandy are death row convicts.

    “18 of them are those who had been condemned for execution while six more of them are those who have appealed against (their) death sentence,” he said.

    Executions do not take place in Sri Lanka even though death penalty is legal. No executions have taken place since June 23, 1976.

    Successive Sri Lankan presidents since 1978 have declined to use hanging warrants for personal reasons. The death sentence therefore is commuted to life imprisonment.

    Prisoners who have to suffer 20-year jail term instead of hanging seek remission at 10 years of their term, officials said.

    However, at present no remission would be applicable until 20 years of sentence is completed.

    http://www.thehindu.com/news/interna...cle5538263.ece
    An uninformed opponent is a dangerous opponent.

    "Y'all be makin shit up" ~ Markeith Loyd

  2. #22
    Administrator Heidi's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Posts
    33,217
    Hangman quits after seeing gallows for first time

    Sri Lanka is searching for a new hangman after the latest recruit got upset on seeing the gallows for the first time and quit, officials said on Tuesday.

    The Prisons Department appointed the new hangman, the third most qualified from 176 applicants, last week, months after two hangmen chosen late last year failed to show up for work.

    "We gave him one week's training, but he resigned after seeing the gallows, saying that he didn't want the job," Chandrarathna Pallegama, commissioner general of prisons, told Reuters.

    "He told me that after seeing the gallows he got upset... Next time, we will show the gallows to the new recruits before giving them basic training."

    But it's not as if he would have been likely to hang anyone anyway. The job is light administrative work only.

    The Indian Ocean island nation, a predominantly Buddhist country, has not carried out an execution since 1976, despite the fact that there are at least 405 convicts on death row.

    But an alarming rise in child abuse, rapes, murders, and drug trafficking in the country since the 25-year war against Tamil Tiger separatists ended in 2009 has prompted some lawyers and politicians to push for the death penalty to be reintroduced.

    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNew.../21526641.html
    An uninformed opponent is a dangerous opponent.

    "Y'all be makin shit up" ~ Markeith Loyd

  3. #23
    Administrator Heidi's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Posts
    33,217
    Seven sentenced to death in Nuwara-Eliya

    Seven accused found guilty of killing a person in Nildandahinna in 1994, were sentenced to death by the High Cout Judge Lalith Ekanayake today.

    Sumanadasa (35) was killed in 1994 during a dispute between two political groups. However, two accused of the case had died prior to the judgment was delivered. It was revealed that among the six accused who were sentenced to dead, three were the siblings.

    http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/46408...ara-eliya.html
    An uninformed opponent is a dangerous opponent.

    "Y'all be makin shit up" ~ Markeith Loyd

  4. #24
    Administrator Heidi's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Posts
    33,217
    Sri Lanka sentences 5 Indian fishermen to death for drug smuggling

    The Sri Lankan government has sentenced five Indian fishermen to death on charges of drug smuggling. The men were arrested in 2011 by the Sri Lankan navy.

    Sri Lankan newspaper The Daily Mirror said that three Sri Lankans had also been sentenced to death along with the fishermen, after "they were found guilty of transporting heroin from India to Sri Lanka".

    The lawyers for the accused have said that they plan to appeal the sentences. They have until 15 November to file an appeal in the Sri Lankan Supreme Court.

    Speaking to Times Now, ministry of external affairs spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said that India will follow the case in a legally-bound way. Since the judgement was just passed, the spokesperson said they will wait and take appropriate action.

    "Government of India will diligently pursue the case with the Sri Lankan government. This is a humanitarian issue and it won't be solved in a day or two. We feel that these fishermen are not guilty, because we have done our due diligence on our side and we feel that they are not guilty," Akbaruddin said.

    "We need to contest this legally, and we will do that by following the Sri Lankan legal process", he added.

    The fishermen in this case, are from the Rameshwaram area in Tamil Nadu.

    The island-nation awards death penalty in cases of rapes, murders and death penalty. However, the last execution in the country happened in June 1976.

    http://www.firstpost.com/world/sri-l...g-1780213.html
    An uninformed opponent is a dangerous opponent.

    "Y'all be makin shit up" ~ Markeith Loyd

  5. #25
    Senior Member CnCP Legend CharlesMartel's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2014
    Location
    FRANCE
    Posts
    3,073
    Sri Lankan soldier gets death penalty over Tamil massacre

    Colombo: A Sri Lankan soldier was today sentenced to death for killing eight Tamil civilians, including four minors, by slitting their throats in Jaffna nearly 15 years ago, in a rare case of the military being held to account for its actions.

    Staff Sergeant Sunil Ratnayake was given capital punishment by a two-judge High Court here while four of the soldier's colleagues were acquitted due to lack of direct evidence against them.

    The massacre at the village of Mirusuvil in the Jaffna peninsula came to light when another man in the group of civilians escaped the military attack and raised the alarm.

    Court heard that the victims were killed by slitting their throats and burying them in a mass grave in Jaffna.

    The incident had occurred on December 19, 2000.

    They had gone to check the ruins of their bombed homes following a ferocious bout of fighting between Tal Tiger guerrillas and troops in that area.

    Instead of the usual sweeping such allegations under the carpet, the then government of President Chandrika Kumaratunga suspended the entire unit of soldiers and subsequently arrested five men who were indicted in 2003.

    Following the lengthy legal process, the final decision was delivered today in a rare case of military being held to account for its actions.

    "Today's sentencing showed that the military was following due process in dealing with abuses committed during the war," army spokesman Jayanath Jayaweera said.

    "This is a good example to show the system is working well," Brigadier Jayaweera told reporters.

    Sri Lanka's army faces allegations that it killed at least 40,000 Tamil civilians in the final months of fighting that ended in May 2009.

    The previous government of strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa maintained that not a single civilian was killed by troops, while his successor Maithruipala Sirisena has agreed to probe the allegations.

    http://zeenews.india.com/news/south-...e_1620016.html

  6. #26
    Senior Member CnCP Legend Mike's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2015
    Location
    Pennsylvania
    Posts
    4,795
    Sri Lankan court gives death sentence to ex-lawmaker

    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A Sri Lankan court has sentenced a former lawmaker to death over the killing of a rival politician in an election-related attack five years ago.

    The court sentenced Duminda Silva and four suspected accomplices to death on Thursday. They were charged with shooting to death Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and three of his supporters.

    The case was widely followed because Silva was seen a favorite of the country's former strongman, Mahinda Rajapaksa. Silva was believed to be protected by Rajapaksa and was flown out of the country soon after the killing, apparently for treatment of injuries he received in the fracas.

    His sentence is also seen a sign of a return of the independence of the judiciary, which was tightly controlled by Rajapaksa before his election defeat last year.

    http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/n...100581707.html
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

  7. #27
    Administrator Aaron's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2015
    Location
    New Jersey, unfortunately
    Posts
    4,382
    Sri Lankan president commutes death sentence of 60 prisoners to life imprisonment

    Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena have commuted 60 prisoners who were on death row in jails to life imprisonment, in view of the country’s 69th Independence Day which was celebrated on Saturday.

    Prison’s Commissioner, Nishan Danasinghe told Xinhua the prisoners had their sentences commuted following a recommendation made by Justice Minister Wijedasa Rajapakse.

    Rajapakse made this recommendation based on a report of an expert committee he had appointed to look into the commutation of death sentence to life imprisonment.

    Most of the prisoners who had their sentences commuted were charged with murder.

    Some of them also included senior prisoners who were in Sri Lankan jails for many years.

    Although Sri Lankan courts have handed out the death penalty in serious crimes such as murder, rape and drug trafficking, no executions have been carried out in the island country since 1976.

    All death penalty cases have been commuted to life in prison.

    https://www.newsghana.com.gh/sri-lan...-imprisonment/
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

  8. #28
    Senior Member CnCP Legend Mike's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2015
    Location
    Pennsylvania
    Posts
    4,795
    Sri Lanka leader vows to end moratorium on death penalty

    By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHCHI
    The Associated Press

    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's president said the government will still end its 42-year moratorium on capital punishment despite requests by the European Union and other diplomatic missions not to do so.

    President Maithripala Sirisena said the decision to implement the death penalty for drug smugglers "will not be changed under any circumstance and despite the objections raised by some factions against the move," according to the president's website.

    Rising crime in Sri Lanka, including gang-related killings, narcotics, robberies and sex crimes have led to a public outcry for executions.

    Last week, Sirisena said convicted drug traffickers will be hanged as a part of a crackdown on narcotics. The government has said it will execute prisoners who have allegedly taken advantage of the moratorium to continue their drug trade from prison. Drug trafficking carries the death penalty in Sri Lanka.

    Sri Lanka has maintained the moratorium since its last execution in 1976.

    No date has been set for the first new execution. More than 400 convicts now in prison were sentenced to death, although many have had their sentences commuted to life or are appealing. Of them, 18 were sentenced for drug-related crimes.

    Sirisena said he would summon judiciary, prisons and law enforcement heads this week to appoint a committee to decide who should be executed.

    The government's decision to end the moratorium drew reaction from the European Union delegation and embassies of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Canada and Norway which asked Sirisena to maintain the moratorium and to uphold Sri Lanka's tradition of opposition to capital punishment.

    The embassies stressed they oppose capital punishment "in all circumstances and in all cases" and that the death penalty is incompatible with human dignity, does not have any proven deterrent effect, and allows judicial errors to become fatal and irreversible.

    http://www.startribune.com/sri-lanka...lty/488861731/

  9. #29
    Senior Member CnCP Legend Mike's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2015
    Location
    Pennsylvania
    Posts
    4,795
    Never heard of this strategy before.

    Sri Lanka to seek execution of five death row convicts in Pakistan

    AFP

    COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will soon resume executions after a 42-year moratorium but will send home five Pakistanis sentenced to death for drug smuggling for execution in their home country, President Maithripala Sirisena said Wednesday.

    The five are among 18 people, including a woman, on death row for drug offences whose execution will go ahead, according to Sirisena. He did not give a date for the first hanging.

    “I am determined to carry out the death penalty for serious drug offenders and I will start with a list (of 18) given to me by the prisons,” he told a public meeting in the north of the country.

    Sirisena said he would hold talks with talks with Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan on repatriating the condemned Pakistanis and having them executed there.

    He gave no further details on the feasibility of such a move.

    International rights groups and the European Union have asked Sri Lanka to reconsider since Sirisena announced last month that he wanted to end the moratorium on hanging.

    Police believe the Indian Ocean island is being used as a transit point by drug traffickers. More than a tonne of cocaine seized in recent years was destroyed by police in January.

    Official figures show there were 373 convicts on death row in Sri Lanka, including the 18 drug offenders, as of last month.

    Death sentences are still passed for crimes including murder, rape and drug-related offences but the last execution was in 1976.

    Nearly 900 people are in prison after being sentenced to death, although many have had their sentences commuted to life or are appealing.

    https://tribune.com.pk/story/1786452...icts-pakistan/

  10. #30
    Moderator Ryan's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2013
    Location
    Newport, United Kingdom
    Posts
    2,454
    Sri Lanka plans 1st death sentence executions since 1976

    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Amid a public outcry over drug-related crime, Sri Lanka’s president has pledged to end a 43-year moratorium on capital punishment and start executing prisoners with drug trafficking convictions who are on death row, the government said in a statement Thursday.

    President Maithripala Sirisena will order the executions soon but the statement announcing his plans on the government’s official web did not say how the prisoners would be executed. Sri Lanka last executed a prisoner in 1976. At the time, prisoners were hanged.

    Sri Lanka has 1,299 people in prison facing face death sentences and 48 of them have been convicted of drug offences. Only 18 of those convicted of death penalty eligible drug offences are on death row because the remaining 30 have appealed their sentences.

    Sirisena’s announcement came after he visited the Philippines in January and praised President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug crackdown as “an example to the world.” Thousands of suspects have been killed in the crackdown that he launched after taking office in 2016, and rights groups have denounced the killings as extra-judicial executions.

    The Sri Lanka government statement said Sirisena believes reinstating executions is justified because he says other countries execute prisoners for drug crimes.

    The statement said Sirisena announced his decision on executions on Wednesday in a southern part of the island nation where large amounts of illegal drugs have been discovered.

    Sri Lankan police in recent months have intensified their efforts to crack down on drugs, seizing 90 kilograms (198 pounds) of heroin from a luxury apartment in the capital, Colombo. Two Americans, two Sri Lankans and an Afghan were arrested.

    The arrest came as citizens are increasingly alarmed with rising crime — including gang-related killings and narcotics and sex crimes — that have generated calls to restart executions. Drug trafficking carries death penalty in Sri Lanka.

    Giada Girelli, a human rights analyst with the Harm Reduction International drug policy research group, said there is no evidence that carrying out executions in Sri Lanka would serve “as an effective deterrent to drug use or trafficking.”

    “It will buck the global trend away from use of the death penalty and only serve to harm the health and human rights of Sri Lanka’s citizens.”

    https://vancouversun.com/pmn/news-pm...e-abf33f9c81ac
    "How do you get drunk on death row?" - Werner Herzog

    "When we get fruit, we get the juice and water. I ferment for a week! It tastes like chalk, it's nasty" - Blaine Keith Milam #999558 Texas Death Row

Page 3 of 5 FirstFirst 12345 LastLast

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Tags for this Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •