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. Sri Lanka would do well to abide by the spirit of the UN resolution, as well as its own constitutional spirituality, and abolish death penalty by legislation. It is also the duty of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka to set the moral tone on this by calling for the abolition of the death penalty in general and for its elimination as a punishment for any of the crimes associated with the Easter attacks, in particular.