Cabinet to consider reducing death penalty to life imprisonment

death-sentenceA proposal has been made to the cabinet to consider the ability of reducing the death penalty to life imprisonment. The proposal was made in the recommendations submitted by the inter-institutional task force which was tasked with the identification of prison reforms. Wijayadasa Rajapaksa, Minister of Justice, and D.M. Swaminathan, Minister of Prison Reforms, Rehabilitation, […]

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