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Veteran film director Pisan dies after heart attack
Online Reporters, Published on 04/12/2018
» Veteran film director Pisan Akaraseranee died of heart failure at age 73 early on Tuesday morning, while being treated for severe back pain at a Bangkok hospital.
Use of death penalty declining around the world
AFP, Published on 07/09/2018
» PARIS: The use of the death penalty is declining -- more than two-thirds of countries have abolished or ceased to use it and executions continued to decrease in 2017, Amnesty International says.
Majority want continued enforcement of death penalty: Nida Poll
Online Reporters, Published on 24/06/2018
» A majority of people want the enforcement of the death penalty to continue, particularly for rape-murder convicts, according to an opinion survey carried out by the National Institute for Development Administration, or Nida Poll.
Poll: Majority want to keep death sentence
Online Reporters, Published on 23/06/2018
» An overwhelming majority of Thais support execution as a penalty for abominable crimes, according to an opinion survey.
Accomplice of man put to death sought
News, Post Reporters, Published on 21/06/2018
» The Justice Ministry has taken a non-committal stance on the controversial issue of capital punishment which has been reignited following the execution of a 26-year-old convicted killer on Monday, the country’s first in nine years.
Second suspect hunted in wake of Monday's execution
Published on 20/06/2018
» TRANG: Police are stepping up the hunt for the second suspect in the murder of a 17-year-old student in a public park six years ago, in the wake of the much debated execution on Monday of the youth's convicted killer.
Death penalty 'here to stay'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 20/06/2018
» Amnesty International organised a protest outside Bang Khwang Central Prison in Bangkok yesterday as debate continues to rage over the legitimacy of the death penalty after the nation saw its first state-sanctioned execution in almost nine years on Monday.
Prayut: Death penalty necessary for peace
Published on 19/06/2018
» Capital punishment must remain to deal with severe crime and ensure national peace and most people agree with it, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said Tuesday.
Killer put to death
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 19/06/2018
» 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.
Man executed by lethal injection
King-oua Laohong, Published on 18/06/2018
» A man has been executed, a first in eight years, according to the Corrections Department.