Have been stopped from 2009, the new Prime Minister of Thailand held the execution of the death penalty again

News24xx.com -  For the first time, Thailand held the execution of the death penalty since 2009, on Monday, June 18 2018.

According to the Thai Department of Corrections, the 26-year-old criminal named Theerasak Longi, was executed by death injection. The execution of Longi was done since six years after he being found guilty and sentenced to death.

A human rights activist from Amnesty International called the death execution of Longi as a disgraceful act. 

The execution of Longi  were carried out after the former Thai coup leader, who now serving as a Prime Minister, Prayut Chan Ocha was preparing his an official visit to Britain and France.

In that meeting, Prayuth, a former of Thai military commander, will get many questions about the death penalty and also about the human rights situation in Thailand since he staged a coup in 2014.

"We still have the death penalty, we have not eliminated it yet," said Tawatchai Thaikaew, Permanent Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Justice as reported from AFP. 

Thaikaew added that the execution was carried out according to the Thailand law.

Thailand's Ministry of Corrections which overseeing one of the largest prisons in the world said at least, 325 inmates had been executed since 1935 by firing squads.

But, that practice have been ended on December 11, 2003. 

And from then until 2009, six inmates were executed with lethal injection. The executions were carried out on Monday that aim to "prevent people who want to did serious crimes or violate the law,  to consider this punishment (the death penalty)."

But the human rights groups have criticized the revival of the death penalty, which is still being a mandatory for a number of offenses, including the brutal killings.
 

 

 

 

 

 

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