{"id":79438,"date":"2018-07-19T15:50:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T22:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=79438"},"modified":"2018-07-19T15:50:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T22:50:44","slug":"eu-canada-norway-expresses-concerns-over-possible-implementation-of-death-penalty-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/07\/19\/eu-canada-norway-expresses-concerns-over-possible-implementation-of-death-penalty-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"EU, Canada, Norway expresses concerns over possible implementation of death penalty in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Colombo, July 16 (newsin.asia) \u2013 The European Union, Canada and Norway, on Monday expressed concerns over the Sri Lankan government\u2019s intention to resume implementing the death penalty after more than 40 years, a statement from the EU mission in Colombo said.<\/p>\n

The Delegation of the European Union, the missions of the EU Member States in Sri Lanka as well as the diplomatic missions of the governments of Canada and Norway in Sri Lanka have written to President Maithripala Sirisena to verify the worrying information in the public domain about the intention of the Sri Lankan government to resume implementing the death penalty after a moratorium of more than 40 years,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

The statement added that the mentioned diplomatic missions have made known in their letter that they strongly and unequivocally oppose capital punishment in all circumstances and in all cases.<\/p>\n

The death penalty is incompatible with human dignity, does not have any proven deterrent effect, and allows judicial errors to become fatal and irreversible,\u201d the EU statement said.<\/p>\n

The diplomatic missions have also requested the President to maintain the moratorium on the implementation of the death penalty and to uphold Sri Lanka\u2019s tradition of opposition to capital punishment.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka\u2019s cabinet of ministers , last week, agreed to re-implement the death penalty on drug traffickers including those who are already facing the death sentence in prisons.<\/p>\n

The government said the cabinet of ministers had taken a collective decision to impose the death sentence considering the recent rise in drug related murders and a large amount of drug imports planned by drug traffickers who were already in prison custody.<\/p>\n

Following cabinet approval, President Sirisena had instructed Justice and Prison Reforms Minister Thalatha Atukorale to prepare the draft bill to implement the death sentence.<\/p>\n

Although capital punishment is a legal penalty in Sri Lanka, there have been no executions carried out since 1976.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 16 (newsin.asia) \u2013 The European Union, Canada and Norway, on Monday expressed concerns over the Sri Lankan government\u2019s intention to resume implementing the death penalty after more than 40 years, a statement from the EU mission in Colombo said. The Delegation of the European Union, the missions of the EU Member […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79438","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=79438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}