Recommendations of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka 1. Making Sri Lanka a stakeholder of the Second Optional Protocol of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and abolishing capital punishment accordingly. 2. Taking necessary steps to convert the capital punishments decreed on death row convicts in prisons at present into life imprisonment. 3. Creating an expeditious rehabilitation process to be implemented for death row convicts in prisons at present. 4. Obtaining knowledge by studying the lessons learnt by Asian and African countries that have abolished capital punishment from the courses of action taken by them during the interim periods that they did that act. 5. Introducing a new penalty system to be used by the countries which implement capital punishment. 6. Educating the society in regard to the offences for which capital punishment is decreed. 7. Incorporating into the school curriculum the facts which are conducive to prevent the creation of criminal personalities in the society. 8. Taking necessary action to implement all the plans in the country, which are required to build up a human rights culture based on the integration of the importance of the right to life into the society. 17