Lanka SC blocks president’s bid to resume hangings
Sri Lanka’s top court yesterday effectively blocked a plan by the president to bring back hangings for the first time since 1976 before he leaves office next month. Maithripala Sirisena said in June that he had signed death warrants for four drug offenders -- mirroring the Philippines’ no-holds-barred anti-narcotics drive -- alarming rights groups and the international community. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court extended yesterday a stay order until the hearing of 15 petitions filed against Sirisena’s bid.
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