{"id":79412,"date":"2018-07-18T15:24:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T22:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=79412"},"modified":"2018-07-18T15:24:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T22:24:33","slug":"no-to-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/07\/18\/no-to-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No\u2019 to death penalty\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prof. Ven. MedagodaAbayathissa Thera said that he was opposed to resuming death penalty.\u00a0<\/em> <\/span><\/h2>\n

We are taught in the Buddhism not kill the person, but kill the fault. In that viewpoint, we are against this move. There is a lot to be done before bringing the death penalty,\u201dAbayathissa Thera said.
\nIt\u2019s necessary to find out the root causes for the existence of drugs and how they enter the country,\u201d the monk added.\u00a0 \u00a0Abayathissa Thera said that the death penalty is carried out by failed states and added Sri Lanka had also fallen into that category.<\/p>\n

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Ven. MedagodaAbayathissa Thera<\/strong><\/td>\n

We are taught in the Buddhism not kill the person, but kill the fault. In that viewpoint, we are against this move. Priority should not be given to killing those who are involved in drug trafficking, but to ways and means to eradicate drugs from the society<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Priority should not be given to killing those who are involved in drug trafficking, but to ways and means to eradicate drugs from the society,\u201d the Thera added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Abayathissa Thera said that if the Government would impose the death penalty on those who organise crimes while being in the prison, it underscores inefficiency and bureaucracy on the part of the Prison Department, in their deals with inmates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) in a letter addressed to President Maithripala Sirisena had requested to revoke his decision to enforce the capital punishment on drug traffickers and implement a powerful and long-term policy framework for the suppression of grave crimes, including drug trafficking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The delegation of the European Union in Sri Lanka as well as the diplomatic missions of Canada and Norway have written to President Sirisena to verify the worrying information in the public domain about the intention of the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) to resume implementing the death penalty.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the Church of Ceylon (Anglican Church) on Monday said it was against the death penalty and instead called on the Government to vigorously combat drug smuggling and distribution at all levels in the society.<\/p>\n

Issuing a statement, the Church of Ceylon said it cannot condone the move to resume the execution of both those sentenced to death for drug related crimes and inmates continuing to be involved in the drug trade while in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prof. Ven. MedagodaAbayathissa Thera said that he was opposed to resuming death penalty.\u00a0 We are taught in the Buddhism not kill the person, but kill the fault. In that viewpoint, we are against this move. There is a lot to be done before bringing the death penalty,\u201dAbayathissa Thera said. It\u2019s necessary to find out the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}