SRI LANKA: TEN PERSONS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER

01 April 2014 :

In Sri Lanka, ten persons were sentenced to death by the Kandy High Court after being found guilty of a murder in the Rattota area in Matale in 2004.
 
(Sources: adaderana.lk, 27/03/2014)

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