According to the aforesaid data a sharp decline can be viewed in the homicide rate in Sri Lanka during the period form the year 2005 up to 2010. However, the social and cultural factors which have influenced it cannot be revealed without a deep analysis in regard to them. Prison statistics issued by the Department of Prisons annually are given below. Note No. 08. Implementation of Capital punishment as per offence - 2004 – 2010 Source : Prison statistics of Sri Lanka - Vol. 30 year 2011. The table categorises the persons to whom capital punishment was decreed during the period from the year 2004 up o 2010 as per the offences committed. Capital punishment is mainly decreed in Sri Lanka for murder and drug related offences. Accordingly capital punishment was decreed to the convicts of drug related offences in the years 2006, 2007 and 2008. Decreeing capital punishment to the convicts of drug related offences is at a lower level when compared with the number of convicts of murder to whom capital punishment was decreed. Even though capital punishment was decreed from the year 1976, there can be viewed an accumulation in prisons, of the persons ,to whom capital punishment has been decreed ,due to the fact that the 14