The Prisons Department will recruit 2 personnel for the existing vacancies for the post of hangman, a Department senior official told the Daily News. He said that applications will be called from suitable candidates shortly.
He also said that the Department is considering to introduce a new Sinhala name for the job title “alugosuwa”. The Department will seek public help to choose a suitable new name and suggestions are requested to be sent to the Prisons Headquarters in Colombo.
He noted that Bogambara and Colombo prisons have gallows and there are 339 inmates on death row. However, Sri Lanka has not implemented the death penalty since 1976.
Source: Sri Lanka Daily News, Sept. 26, 2011
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