{"id":167992,"date":"2016-09-22T14:39:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T09:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=167992"},"modified":"2016-09-22T14:39:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T09:09:20","slug":"duminda-silva-challenges-death-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/duminda-silva-challenges-death-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Duminda Silva Challenges Death Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Parliamentarian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Duminda+Silva&amp;x=10&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Duminda Silva<\/span><\/a> who was recently sentenced to death in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Bharatha+Lakshman+Premachandra&amp;x=9&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra<\/span><\/a> killing has filed an appeal in the Colombo High Court, challenging the sentence delivered by the Court this month.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_84412\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Duminda-Silva-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84412\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-84412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Duminda-Silva-12-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Duminda\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Duminda-Silva-12-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Duminda-Silva-12-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-84412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duminda<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week, three others Anura Thushara De Mel, Chaminda Ravi Jayanath alias \u2018Dematagoda Chaminda\u2019 and Mudiyanselage Sarath Bandara, who were also sentenced to death along with Silva submitted an appeal on the death sentence.<\/p>\n<p>On September 8, they were sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court in a divided judgement over a shoot-out in Mulleriyawa between Silva and Premachandra and their thugs, which killed Premachandra in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":84412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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