Say ‘No’ to the alugosuwa!
Featured image courtesy the Huffington Post
- - on 12/02/2015
There has been an organised move to bring back the hangman and implement the death penalty in Sri Lanka.
Several weeks ago, Colombo District MP Hirunika Premachandra presented in Parliament an adjournment motion for the revival of capital punishment in Sri Lanka. She said that once the motion went through Parliament she would request President Maithripala Sirisena and the government to consider bringing back capital punishment. The motion seems to have been grounded in the member’s belief that capital punishment is the solution tothe increasing anti-social and violent activities. An adjournment motion does not end in a vote but some members of the government supported the motion while others spoke against it.
