Sri Lanka will soon resume executions after a 42-year moratorium but will send home five Pakistanis sentenced to death for drug smuggling for execution in their home country, President Maithripala Sirisena said Wednesday.
The five are among 18 people, including a woman, on death row for drug offences whose execution will go ahead, according to Sirisena. He did not give a date for the first hanging.
“I am determined to carry out the death penalty for serious drug offenders and I will start with a list (of 18) given to me by the prisons,” he told a public meeting in the north of the country.
Sirisena said he would hold talks with talks with Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan on repatriating the condemned Pakistanis and having them executed there.
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Source: Seychelles News Agency
