斯里兰卡法院判处前警察局长普吉思·贾亚松德拉死刑，罪名是刑事过失导致2019年复活节爆炸案发生[1]。这起恐怖袭击造成260多人丧生，其中包括42名外国人[1]。法院认定贾亚松德拉未能根据情报警告采取行动阻止袭击[1]。
爆炸事件波及3家旅游酒店和3座教堂（两座天主教堂，一座新教堂）[1]。议会委员会的调查发现，警察和情报官员未能根据多次情报警告采取行动[1]。
由于斯里兰卡自1976年以来实施非正式的死刑缓刑，死刑判决通常意味着终身监禁[1]。现任总统阿努拉·库马拉·迪萨纳亚克支持维持这一政策[1]。
A Sri Lankan court has sentenced former police chief Pujith Jayasondara to death for criminal negligence in connection with the 2019 Easter bombings, which killed more than 260 people including 42 foreigners [1]. The court determined that Jayasondara failed to act on intelligence warnings to prevent the attacks [1]. The bombings targeted three tourist hotels and three churches—two Catholic and one Protestant [1].
A parliamentary committee previously found that police and intelligence officials had not taken action despite receiving multiple intelligence alerts about the threat [1]. However, the death sentence in Sri Lanka effectively amounts to life imprisonment, as the country has maintained an informal moratorium on capital punishment since 1976 [1]. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has expressed support for maintaining this de facto stay of executions [1].