COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will quickly resume executions after a 42-year moratorium but will send house 5 Pakistanis sentenced to death for drug smuggling for execution of their house country, President Maithripala Sirisena said Wednesday.
The 5 are among 18 other people, including a lady, on death row for drug offences whose execution will move forward, according to Sirisena. He didn't give a date for the first putting.
"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 within the north of the rustic.
Sirisena said he would cling talks with talks with Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan on repatriating the condemned Pakistanis and having them done there.
He gave no further main points at the feasibility of such a move.
International rights teams and the European Union have requested Sri Lanka to reconsider since Sirisena announced ultimate month that he sought after to end the moratorium on putting.
Police imagine the Indian Ocean island is being used as a transit point through drug traffickers. More than a tonne of cocaine seized in recent years was once destroyed through police in January.
Official figures show there were 373 convicts on death row in Sri Lanka, including the 18 drug offenders, as of ultimate month.
Death sentences are nonetheless handed for crimes including homicide, rape and drug-related offences but the ultimate execution was once in 1976.
Nearly 900 persons are in prison after being sentenced to death, even supposing many have had their sentences commuted to existence or are interesting.
The 5 are among 18 other people, including a lady, on death row for drug offences whose execution will move forward, according to Sirisena. He didn't give a date for the first putting.
"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 within the north of the rustic.
Sirisena said he would cling talks with talks with Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan on repatriating the condemned Pakistanis and having them done there.
He gave no further main points at the feasibility of such a move.
International rights teams and the European Union have requested Sri Lanka to reconsider since Sirisena announced ultimate month that he sought after to end the moratorium on putting.
Police imagine the Indian Ocean island is being used as a transit point through drug traffickers. More than a tonne of cocaine seized in recent years was once destroyed through police in January.
Official figures show there were 373 convicts on death row in Sri Lanka, including the 18 drug offenders, as of ultimate month.
Death sentences are nonetheless handed for crimes including homicide, rape and drug-related offences but the ultimate execution was once in 1976.
Nearly 900 persons are in prison after being sentenced to death, even supposing many have had their sentences commuted to existence or are interesting.
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