COLOMBO (News 1st): Prisons Commissioner General T. M. J. W. Tennakoon informed the Magistrates Court that President Mathripala Sirisena has not yet given them any specifications of the names of those in line for capital punishment, the dates, times or the places.

He informed of the matter when the writ petition filed against the death penalty was taken up before a five-person court of appeal today (July 5).

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