A Sri Lanka court yesterday sentenced former police chief Pujith Jayasundara to death for failing to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which killed 279 people including 45 foreigners. In a majority decision, a three-judge bench ruled that former inspector general had failed in his duties to stop the attacks, blamed on a homegrown extremist group. Jayasundara, 66, can appeal against his sentence in the Supreme Court. Sri Lanka has not carried out the death sentence since 1976. There are around 800 people on death row, according to government figures shared with parliament in February, with sentences usually commuted to life imprisonment.