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SRI LANKA: 2 FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER 35 YRS AGO SENTENCED TO DEATH

02 November 2017 :

Two persons found guilty of a murder 35 years ago have been sentenced to death by the Kurunegala High Court.
The duo was found guilty of killing an individual and injuring another on the 28th of July 1982 by setting off a locally manufactured bomb in Maspotha, Kurunegala.
The two found guilty are now 63 and 77 years of age and residents of Colpetty and Kelaniya respectively.

 
(Sources: newsradio.lk, 27/10/2017)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.