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SRI LANKA: MONERAGALA HC HANDS DOWN DEATH SENTENCE

31 July 2014 :

An individual who had sexually abused and killed a six year old boy was handed the death sentence in Sri Lanka. The sentence was ordered by the Moneragala High Court Judge, Gihan H. Kulathunga. The crime was committed on  April 15, 2006 in Buttala. The perpetrator was a thirty-four-year-old resident of Koslanda in Mirisbadda.
 
(Sources: newsfirst.lk, 31/07/2014)

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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.