Sri Lanka recruiting 2 hangmen before resuming death penalty

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 08:01:45 +0000

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan prison authorities are recruiting two hangmen after the president pledged to end a 43-year moratorium on capital punishment and execute condemned drug traffickers amid alarm over drug-related crime in this Indian Ocean island nation.

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