Over 90 percent of respondents in a poll agree with life imprisonment for people who buy or sell positions in government services and more than half of them support police reforms, according to results of the Super Poll research office. The poll was conducted during October 15-19 among 440 samples who are police officers attached […]
A former Thai bar girl named Orathai Prommatat, 24, was sentenced to death by a High Court in Malaysia on October 14, after she was found guilty of trafficking 693.4 grams of cocaine in July 2014, Bernama News reported. “Malaysia’s Judicial Commissioner Datuk Nordin Hassan handed down the sentence on 24-years old Thai national Orathai […]
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday told a crowd of at least a million people he would approve the re-instigation of the death penalty if the parliament voted for it. Opposition leaders and religious figures joined Erdogan at the mass rally, in which the president blamed the coup on the US-based cleric Fethullah Gülen […]
Reinstating the death penalty in Turkey would end EU accession talks, a German government spokesman has stated. Meanwhile, EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini also warned that no country can become an EU member that has capital punishment. “Introduction of death penalty would mean immediate suspension of accession talks,” German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not ruling out instituting of death penalty for participants of the thwarted military coup in the country, media reported on Sunday. ANKARA (Sputnik) — On Saturday, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that the Constitutional Council and political parties in Turkey would discuss the feasibility of returning death penalty, […]
Under Thai law, people convicted of rape can only be punished with a jail term, but often these offenders commit the crime again after serving their term. Chatri Ruamsoongnern, the prime suspect in the recent brutal murder of a 26-year-old teacher in Saraburi, had previously been convicted of raping the wife of a friend a […]
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha Monday ordered the legal community and judiciary to ensure that convicted rapists are sentenced to death. “Foreign countries tackle rape cases by resorting to capital punishment,” the prime minister said. “Is it possible in Thailand? The judicial sector must undertake this.” Read more: The Nation
Yesterday, Saudi Arabian officials said they have executed 47 people whom courts convicted as terrorists. Officials said the executions were not done in public. Saudi cleric Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh in justifying the executions cited Saudi Arabia’s interpretation of Sharia Law and said the executions prevented the accused from committing further crime, calling it […]
