Thailand carries out first executions in six years | Amnesty International
Killing a couple of drug mules, that'll stop that pesky multi-billion $ international drug trade.THAILAND CARRIES OUT FIRST EXECUTIONS IN SIX YEARS
26 August 2009
The government of Thailand resumed its use of judicial state killing after a six-year hiatus on Monday, when two men were executed by lethal injection at Bang Khwang prison, central Thailand.
Bundit Jaroenwanit, aged 45, and Jirawat Poompreuk, aged 52, were convicted of drug trafficking on 29 March 2001 and subsequently sentenced to death. It has been reported that they were only given 60 minutes’ notice before their executions were carried out.
"As country after country abandons its use of judicial state killing, the resumption of executions in Thailand is a major step backwards," said Donna Guest, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Asia Pacific Programme.
Although Thailand continued to hand down death sentences, the authorities did not execute anyone for six years, which the abolitionist movement had welcomed as an encouraging sign from the Asia region.
The last executions in Thailand were carried out in 2003, when four people were executed by lethal injection. These were the first executions by lethal injection, which had replaced execution by shooting in the same year.
In its 2005 Consideration of Thailand’s report, the United Nations Human Rights Committee expressed concern that the death penalty was not restricted to the most serious crimes and was applicable to drug trafficking in Thailand.
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They should be slotting murderers too.
'After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box'
Now what about all those drug dealers dealt with under Ayotollah Thaskins rule ?
Oh I forgot they were all shot by their rivals weren't they even that ten year old child.
I seem to recall a large number of people dying accidental deaths at Tak Bai too.
Such a comfort to know that there is no death penalty in Thailand in reality isn't it ?
'Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media,
which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end.'
...Shit!Bundit Jaroenwanit, aged 45, and Jirawat Poompreuk, aged 52, were convicted of drug trafficking on 29 March 2001 and subsequently sentenced to death. It has been reported that they were only given 60 minutes’ notice before their executions were carried out.
Do you have coke?
they used to tell them on the way to be killed, i'd recommend 'the last executioner' which is about the last Thai executioner (well the last executioner that killed with a machine gun anyway)
^ Been meaning to read that book for ages, can you get it in Thailand or have they banned it? I heard of another good book about the Thai royal family that's banned here. Cant think of the name though
The K never smiles.
This is it... The apocalypse.
Davey are you sure? I read the book and the interview. They are given short notice but do have the chance to see the family and a monk.Originally Posted by DaveyG
Too long in Exile, too long not singing my song.
Too long like a rolling stone, Too long in exile
Too long in Exile, baby you just arent my friend.
Too long in Exile my friend, Baby you can never go home again.
yeah, i read the book, the guy that raped and murdered that girl was told and he said fair enough i seem to remember, the woman who was invloved in that kidnapping burst into tears and was then shot, although that didn;t work so they then had to put her back on the cross and shoot her again, sorry didn;t mean to spoil the book was a good read. Yes you can buy it in B2S, my copy is back in the Uk, so if you read it tell us whether I was right or wrong
Any country that still has the death penalty on their books belongs in the middle ages
Daniel Bedingfield claimed that his new album is what it would sound like if Sting, Stevie Wonder and Micheal Jackson were in a basement together - I haven't got the album so I'll have to imagine the sound of a blind bloke and a Geordie kicking the shit out of a pedophile.
Deal drugs. Maybe u die. Better to be executed then live life in prison.
Ex-ecute 'em, IMO.
Agree with cream... the death penalty is a joke.
But it works so well as a deterent...Sorry, deterrent!
"Always forgive your enemies -- Nothing annoys them so much !"
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Lets kill people who steal too then. That'll stop em for sure!
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