{"id":91068,"date":"2019-07-04T16:24:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T23:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91068"},"modified":"2019-07-04T16:24:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T23:24:20","slug":"death-penalty-must-be-mandatory-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/04\/death-penalty-must-be-mandatory-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"DEATH PENALTY MUST BE MANDATORY IN SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>There\nis an argument that the legislature cannot deprive the right to live, under any\ncircumstances.&nbsp; This is the view held by some Western Nations. The last\ndeath sentence in Australia was in 1967.&nbsp; The debate started again in 2002\nafter Bali bombing where 202 Aussies were killed.&nbsp; Similarly Sri Lanka\nlost nearly 300 after 21\/4 bombing.&nbsp; The extent to which terrorism\noperates now, <strong>these events might not have been averted even if capital\npunishment was in place.<\/strong> &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Murder\nrate in Sri Lanka ( according to last published statistics) was 3.4 per 100,000\ninhabitants.&nbsp; In our region, our murder rate is higher than\nMalaysia&nbsp;&nbsp; ( 31 million) and Bangladesh ( 165 million) population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If\nsomeone with the criminal intent cause the end of life for another, then the\ncriminal need to be aware of his destiny if caught and found guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\nneed not get mixed up with Buddhism and Punishment for Crime.&nbsp; Apart from\ndeaths caused by terrorists attacks, <strong>today Sri Lanka is not a safe place to\nlive at all.&nbsp; People are always in angry mood.&nbsp; Whilst walking if you\naccidentally bump into some one unknown &nbsp;on the street,&nbsp; are you\nblind\u201d is the spontaneous question?&nbsp; They are ready for a fight anytime\nwith anyone for anything.&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In\naddition, corruption and contract killings are rampant in Sri Lanka.&nbsp;\nThose who became rich recently consider themselves most powerful.&nbsp;\nPoliticians are in the front line in this parade. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Felons\nmust be treated equally the same way the Felons treated the innocent\nvictims.&nbsp; Judiciary is neither a Temple nor Church.&nbsp; Dhamma is not\npart of Criminal Law.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Death\nPenalty must be made&nbsp; mandatory in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE There is an argument that the legislature cannot deprive the right to live, under any circumstances.&nbsp; This is the view held by some Western Nations. The last death sentence in Australia was in 1967.&nbsp; The debate started again in 2002 after Bali bombing where 202 Aussies were killed.&nbsp; Similarly Sri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91068","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=91068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}