The four are D.D. Ranjith de Silva, Victor Corea, Sanath Pushpakumara and Sangeetha Kumara.
The SPA statement said the men were executed for robbing a number of businesses at gunpoint.
The four were convicted of armed robbery in October 2005. Subsequently on March 10, 2006, High Court Judge Abdul Aziz Al-Musaikri confirmed the verdict pronouncing all four guilty and sentenced them to death. During the trial, it was proved that the accused had committed three robberies, and were caught pretending to be municipal workers while driving a municipal vehicle.
The vehicle had been stolen and the driver of the vehicle, a Bangladeshi, who was working for the municipality through a contracting company, had been shot and left permanently injured.
Following the verdict in March last year, the Sri Lankan Embassy sought clemency for the men on humanitarian grounds.
The mission's appeal was supported with letters from the next-of-kin of the accused. During their detention in Al-Hair jail last year, the four men also embraced Islam.
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The SPA statement said the men were executed for robbing a number of businesses at gunpoint.
The four were convicted of armed robbery in October 2005. Subsequently on March 10, 2006, High Court Judge Abdul Aziz Al-Musaikri confirmed the verdict pronouncing all four guilty and sentenced them to death. During the trial, it was proved that the accused had committed three robberies, and were caught pretending to be municipal workers while driving a municipal vehicle.
The vehicle had been stolen and the driver of the vehicle, a Bangladeshi, who was working for the municipality through a contracting company, had been shot and left permanently injured.
Following the verdict in March last year, the Sri Lankan Embassy sought clemency for the men on humanitarian grounds.
The mission's appeal was supported with letters from the next-of-kin of the accused. During their detention in Al-Hair jail last year, the four men also embraced Islam.
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they r nt terrorists
