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 […]
A Jakarta court sentenced eight Taiwanese to death Thursday on charges of trying to smuggle in about 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of crystal methamphetamine last year, the latest foreigners to face a prospective firing squad over Indonesia’s strict anti-narcotics laws. The eight defendants, all men, were considering whether to appeal the verdict handed down at […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Indian government on Saturday approved an ordinance to amend the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act to introduce the death penalty for gang rape of girls of age below 12, local media reported. According to The Economic Times, stringent punishment for rape of girls under 12 years will amount […]
Thailand will be one step closer to becoming a country that is no longer considered to have capital punishment next year, according to a definition which adopts a 10-year period for declaring a country execution-free in practice, says Amnesty International Thailand. The group said it was pleased this criteria will likely be met, but added […]
A court in Myanmar’s Mandalay district sentenced a child rapist and murderer to death on Friday in one of the latest in a growing number of sexual assault cases reported in the Southeast Asian country, media sources said. Phyo Htet Aung, 23, was sentenced in the district court in Pyin Oo Lwin township after being […]
On Wednesday, an anti-terrorism court in the Pakistani city of Haripur sentenced one man to death, and five others to life imprisonment, for killing 23-year-old Mashal Khan in a mob violence incident last year. 57 out of 61 verdicts were announced, which took place behind closed doors for security reasons, and about 250 police officials […]
PHUKET: An Italian Senator has appealed to the Government of Thailand to stave off the death penalty for Denis Cavatassi, who stands convicted of hiring a killer to murder his business partner, Luciano Butti, in Phuket in 2011. Cavatassi was convicted and condemned to death by the Supreme Court of Thailand but has always maintained […]
AS MANY as 447 convicts are now on death row in Thailand, which is reviewing the use of death penalty. “We have started with the move to allow judges to exercise their judgement to decide whether a convict should be sentenced to death or life imprisonment – instead of prescribing death sentence as the only […]
