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Death
Row inmates want Life
14
file FR cases to avoid rotting in prison since death sentences
are not carried out in Sri Lanka
Fundamental
Rights Applications by 14 inmates on Death Row have been filed
requesting their sentences be commuted to Life sentences.
Since Death sentences are not carried out in Sri Lanka, they
claimed that they are destined to rot in prison for their
entire life.
“The
Commissioner General of Prisons, Superintendents of Prisons,
Welikada, Mahara, Bogambara, Secretary Ministry of Justice,
Minister of Justice and the Attorney General have been named
as Respondents,” said a lawyer involved in the case.
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