4 hours ago, webfact said:

also chose his final meal – grilled chicken and sticky rice

Excellent choice I must say.

5 hours ago, Fish Head Soup said:

They were informed in 2012, they've had 6 years to say goodbye.

How dull. 

No tears from me for this vile killer. Hope he burns in hell.

 

 

 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

grilled chicken and sticky rice

Somtam is forgotten by the reporter.

9 hours ago, baboon said:

But did his family not have the right to say goodbye to him, despite the wicked nature of crime he was found guilty of committing?

He has now paid for what he did. Will you also deprive his mother of a decent funeral and laying his remains forest, for her own closure if nothing else?

I tend to agree. While I must agree that HIS actions lacked any compassion for the victim, that does not then (in my kind) mean we, as a society, can’t or shouldn’t extent a minimum amount of compassion to the convict, while still upholding the chosen judicial punishment.

I just don’t see this as an all-or-nothing situation.  I also don’t agree with the notion of withholding names of the convicted as to me, if society is going to impose what arguably is the most extreme form of punishment on an individual, then I think for transparency purposes, it should be known who was subjected to said punishment.

 

Some cynical comments here. You're a happy bunch of campers.

15 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Thailand seems to be aspiring to Chinese, North Korean, Iran style justice. Shameful.

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Actually, more like the seemingly super-civilized Japan.  In Japan, condemned prisoners are kept in total isolation for up to several years, never knowing their actual execution date and time. they are informed of their execution time only 12 hours before it is to be carried out.  Relatives are usually unable to visit and are only allowed to collect the remains.

5 hours ago, Artisi said:

How dull. 

Indeed, I hate long goodbyes too. Tiresome.

There are many questions arising from this execution. Questions that may never be answered.

 

1. Who authorised it, and why?

2. Why this one convict out of many who committed far more serious crimes?

3. Why so quick, as if to prevent any pre-protestations from the public or human rights organisations.

 

As to point 1, which is one year before the death penalty would have been, by defacto, abolished - the same question as to WHO was involved. I'll leave you to ponder that it wasn't as reported.

 

And on a further point, it opens up the renewed possibility that the two Koh Tao guys could meet the same fate. 

 

 

 

Yes, the victim was 17. But has murderer was 19.

 

Two heinous crimes have now been committed.

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Edited June 24, 20188 yr by KhunBENQ

On 6/20/2018 at 3:33 PM, stephenterry said:

1. Who authorised it, and why?

Everyone knows there is one person who can STOP any execution.

Is that answer enough?

Draw your own conclusion.

The topic is too hot to discuss here.

 

Edited June 24, 20188 yr by KhunBENQ

On 6/20/2018 at 3:33 PM, stephenterry said:

And on a further point, it opens up the renewed possibility that the two Koh Tao guys could meet the same fate. 

517 on death row.

Many possibilities.