It is reported that a woman is the first person on the list of eighteen death sentences.
Shyamali Perera, a resident of Mattakkuliya is first in the list.
She was sentenced to death on March 1, 2011.
Women have not been sentenced to death under Section 54 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
The highest punishment for women in the history of prisons, thus far is life imprisonment.
The person named Dharmakaran is second on the list.
He was sentenced to death on December 4, 2003.
According to that list, N.J.M. Ishtar and P.G. Bolising is third and fourth behind.
They were sentenced to death in 2007.
(Mirror)