BANGKOK — Those campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty may take solace in the fact that no one has been executed for eight years. There have been no actual executions, but a senior government official said it’s simply impossible to predict when capital punishment will be abolished in Thailand. Pitikan Sitthidej, Director General […]
All those liberals, like David Seymour, who think there is no problem with Islam, or with shariah law should tread very carefully. Especially when you read about people being sentenced to death for blasphemy for comments on Facebook. A Pakistani man has been sentenced to death for committing blasphemy on Facebook, the first conviction on […]
A Malaysian court Thursday sentenced nine Filipinos to death for taking part in a foiled incursion in the eastern state of Sabah that left more than 70 people dead four years ago. A three-member Appeals Court panel in Putrajaya overturned last year’s life sentences handed to the nine defendants by a lower court, which convicted […]
Police have now pressed pre-meditated murder charge against four of the five suspects in the dismemberment murder case. With this charge, Priyanuch Nonwangchai, Kawita Rachada, Apiwan Satayabundit and Wasin Namprom will face death sentence if convicted in court. The other suspect, Jidarat Promkhun, is not charged with this serious count on grounds that she was […]
Deputy Prime Minister Wisanu Krea-ngarm clarified on Thursday that Thailand has not scrapped death penalty, but, in actual practice, the punishment has not been enforced for the past 10 years and replaced by life imprisonment. Mr Wisanu made the clarification in reference to a recent verdict of the Criminal Court handing down death sentence on […]
Two men have been sentenced to die for killing a man over his iPhone in January. The Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced Kittikorn Wiphana, 26, and Supatchai Chansi, 25, to death, declining to commute the sentence even though they confessed to the crime. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
Spanish murder suspect Artur Segarra was sentenced to death by a Thai court, which found him guilty for the premeditated murder in Bangkok of his compatriot David Bernat and 12 other crimes related to the case. “There is very little chance of achieving anything positive for my defendant,” said Jassada Piyasuwanvanit, the court-appointed lawyer who […]
BANGKOK — China topped the world list in 2016 for the highest number of state executions carried out, with the figures standing at more than 1,000 according to the latest report by Amnesty International. The report, released Tuesday, said at least 1,032 were executed in 23 countries around the world in 2016 excluding China. Full […]
