Killer put to death in first execution in Thailand in nine years

A 26-year-old convicted killer was executed by lethal injection Monday, the seventh person to be put to death since the method was introduced and the first since 2009, Corrections Department chief Pol Col Naras Savestanan said.

Theerasak Longji, 26, was convicted for the brutal killing of a 17-year-old boy in Trang.

Full story: Bangkok Post

KING-OUA LAOHONG
BANGKOK POST

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