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Death penalty ineffective
News, Editorial, Published on 21/03/2018
» US President Donald Trump is exploring options including the use of capital punishment to battle a new and deadly epidemic of drug abuse. So many Americans have died while abusing the world's most powerful opioids that the outbreak has reduced average US life expectancy by two years. The trafficking of drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone, fentanyl and the like has resisted standard "war on drugs" enforcement, and the US government is floundering and grasping at promised solutions.
Banyin avoids death penalty
News, Post Reporters, Published on 16/12/2020
» A court has sentenced former deputy commerce minister Banyin Tangpakorn to death, with the penalty reduced to life in prison for useful testimony.
Debating the death penalty
News, Editorial, Published on 20/06/2018
» The Corrections Department has opened the raw wound of capital punishment once again.
California suspends death penalty
AFP, Published on 14/03/2019
» LOS ANGELES: State governor Gavin Newsom imposed a moratorium on carrying out the death penalty in California on Wednesday, granting a reprieve to 737 condemned inmates -- the largest death row population in the United States.
Banyin gets death penalty
News, Post Reporters, Published on 21/01/2021
» The Criminal Court has sentenced to death former deputy commerce minister Banyin Tangpakorn for the murder of billionaire construction-firm owner Chuwong Sae Tang in a staged car crash in 2015.
Zambia abolishes death penalty
AFP, Published on 24/12/2022
» LUSAKA: Zambian rights activists Saturday hailed as a "huge milestone" a decision to scrap two British colonial-era laws: the death penalty and making criticism of the country's leader a punishable offence.
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.
Justice flaws condemn death penalty
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 02/07/2018
» A latest claim by an eyewitness, that executed murder convict Teekrasak Longji was not a murderer, has mostly been buried in the death penalty debate where emotions ran high over the past two weeks.
Pope says death penalty 'inadmissable'
AFP, Published on 02/08/2018
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has declared the death penalty "inadmissible" in an update of Catholic believers' most important guide to Church teaching, the catechism, the Vatican said Thursday.
Death penalty taints the record
News, Editorial, Published on 14/10/2018
» Thailand has missed a chance to be part of the world majority in marking the international day against the death penalty this week after it carried out the execution of a young convict in June amid high publicity.