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Comment on Judgemental Justice: From Affronting Acquittals To Barbaric Death Sentences by SebastianSR
['Rajan Philips', 'Author', 'Old Codger', 'Nimal Fernando', 'The Truth', 'Ratnam Nadarajah']
Comments for Colombo Telegraph
Imposing the death penalty on a person found guilty of any Easter attacks crime is tantamount to insulting Christ.
Some may interpret the Muslim Sharia law as permitting death penalty for various crimes, but a number of Muslim countries do not enforce death penalty as legal punishment.
On the more secular front, a 2007 UN resolution calls for the suspension of death penalty while pursuing its ultimate abolishment.
It has been done before when Prime Minister Bandaranaike abolished death penalty in 1956 only to be reinstated after his assassination.
Muted ReactionsSurprisingly and sadly perhaps, there has been no outrage against the imposition of death penalty, only muted reactions.