Presidential pardons in Sri Lanka: An Unchecked Executive Power?
By Ahalya Lelwala On 26 March 2020, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa granted a presidential pardon to former Lance Corporal Sunil Ratnayake, a prisoner on death row for the murder of eight persons in Mirusuvil in 2000. Ratnayake was sentenced to death...
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