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Subscribe to RSSSri Lanka on Tuesday began interviews for the post of hangman a year after two positions fell vacant, with at least 480 convicts on death row.
But it was not quite clear how the two successful candidates would fill their days - the death penalty has not been used in Sri Lanka, a predominantly Buddhist country, since 1976.
"About 176 applicants are there and interviews are going on today and tomorrow," Gamini Kulatunga, commissioner operations at the Prisons Department, told Reuters. "Only males will be eligible for the post."
The two posts fell vacant after one hangman was promoted and the other retired.
At least 480 people convicted of murder and drugs offenses could potentially be executed, Kulatunga said.
There has been an alarming rise in child abuse, rapes, murders, and drug trafficking since the 25-year war against Tamil Tiger separatists ended in May 2009, prompting some lawyers and politicians to push for the death penalty to be reintroduced.
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Maybe they can outsource the job to India like everything else. One hangman retired.Did he get a golden rope?
5... 4... 3... 2... 1: how long will it be before the law and order sickos with Punisher fantasies come out the woodwork gushing about how they'd love to have that job? :D
How long before NBC creates a reality show dealing with hangmen????
We have a lot of people out of work. Ask them how they feel about working abroad.
i would sign up in a heart beat : /
Well, Romney, with the support of his moral majority following, should be available in November. I'll forward the application to him.
I would like to apply ,I would spend my free time ,playing StarWars the Old Republic ,banging hookers and pulling the wings of of flys and growing my own Medical Majuanna
...and dodging school.
Just how do you promote a hangman?
That was rhetorical. You give him a job as a conservative pundit.
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Muslims will take over eventually and they'll have thousands of applicants.
I am sure someone in Texas is looking for this job. After all, State of Texas is the leader in executing death row prisoners.
Goooooo Texas!