Sri Lanka. Government looking for executioner

The government of Sri Lanka has reinstated the death penalty, but has no executioner. Next week, she will publish an advertisement for a post of “responsible for executions”.

A job offer that may not find a taker right away. The government of Sri Lanka has reintroduced the death penalty for drug traffickers in the country, and it now wants to put it into practice. But to do this, it lacks a central element: an executioner.

The Filipino “model”

Sri Lanka has not applied the death penalty since 1976. But the government has taken as a “model” the Philippines of Rodrigo Duterte, a president who boasts of having already killed someone , and has decided to reinstate it. “We will try to repeat this success” Filipino, declared the spokesman of the government, Rajitha Senaratne.

While in the Philippines executions can be carried out in the middle of the street , in Sri Lanka they are carried out by hanging. But the executions office has had no employees since the last three resigned.

The Sri Lankan government will therefore publish an advertisement next week for a post of “responsible for the execution of prisoners by hanging” . The proposed salary would be 35,000 rupees per month, or 200 euros.

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