Picture: Daily News

 

The Supreme Court has upheld death sentences against seven Thai men in the slaying of eight members of the same family in Krabi in southern Thailand in July 2017.

 

In a video conference decision the court said there were no mitigating circumstances and the sentence would act as a deterrent.

 

The seven men were also ordered to pay financial restitution to the families of all those killed in sums varying from 400,000 to 2 million baht. 

 

Sentenced to death was the ringleader Surikfat "Bung Fat" Bannopwongkun, 41, Khomsan Wiangnon, 36, Abdullo Dolo, 30, Arun Thongkham, 29, Prajak Bunthoy, 36, Thanachai Jamnong, 41 and Thawatchai Binkhong, 37.

 

Chalita Sangchote, the forty one year old wife of Bung Fat was given a twelve month jail sentence for her part in the murder, reported Daily News.

 

She was not involved in the killings but hid valuables from the murder scene. 

 

On July 10th 2017 in Ban Klang, Ao Leuk, Krabi the men entered the home of local chief Worayut Sanglang wearing military style clothing. 

 

They terrorized the family before shooting eleven people execution style. Three - a mother and her daughters - survived. 

 

The incident happened after the father in law of the chief had loaned land to Bung Fat that was not returned. 

 

The case was widely reported at the time causing revulsion at the grisly nature of the crime.

 

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Good Riddance!!!!

The sheer stupidity of all involved, such a waste of life

Gulag, hard 12 hour a day labour in a mine for life without parole, would have been more sufficient. Death penalty is too humane for subhumans like these...

Sentenced to death and ordered to pay up to 2 millions baht ... Wonder how that works out? 

6 hours ago, webfact said:

- a mother and her daughters - survived. 

The good side of this news.

1 hour ago, pixelaoffy said:

Sentenced to death and ordered to pay up to 2 millions baht ... Wonder how that works out? 

A British businessman called Roger Cooper wrote a book called 'Death plus ten years.' That was the sentence he received in Iran in the late 1980s.

1 hour ago, pixelaoffy said:

Sentenced to death and ordered to pay up to 2 millions baht ... Wonder how that works out? 

perhaps if there are assets involved he may be forced to sell them?

2 hours ago, pixelaoffy said:

Sentenced to death and ordered to pay up to 2 millions baht ... Wonder how that works out? 

An IOU note?

Normally, I'm opposed to capital punishment but those convictions crumble when I contemplate the horror and terror the victims of these arrogant scum must have experienced in their last moments.

I find myself wishing for old "Khun Chavoret", the Last Executioner" to re-appear with his single machine gun loaded with 14 bullets and that the condemned be placed in a line and dispatched one at a time, with the leader: "Bung Fat" last to go.

8 hours ago, webfact said:

They terrorized the family before shooting eleven people execution style. Three - a mother and her daughters - survived. 

Don't waste a bullet on any of them, hang them all up from poles, but not before all from the village come out to spit on them and throw rotten tomatoes and the like at them, then douse petrol on them, and one by one, kick the chairs from under their feet and light them up at the same time.

20 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

Don't waste a bullet on any of them, hang them all up from poles, but not before all from the village come out to spit on them and throw rotten tomatoes and the like at them, then douse petrol on them, and one by one, kick the chairs from under their feet and light them up at the same time.

Your mind is worse than the killers . 

27 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

Don't waste a bullet on any of them, hang them all up from poles, but not before all from the village come out to spit on them and throw rotten tomatoes and the like at them, then douse petrol on them, and one by one, kick the chairs from under their feet and light them up at the same time.

Looks like you have an ego problem.????

25 minutes ago, itsari said:

Your mind is worse than the killers . 

In other words, healthy.

I like the Saudi way of doing things and Eye for an Eye

3 hours ago, Freigeist365 said:

Gulag, hard 12 hour a day labour in a mine for life without parole, would have been more sufficient. Death penalty is too humane for subhumans like these...

Actually,

They will spend years and years in the death ' den ' where all death sentence prisoners are put.

They have their legs shackled 24/7. It's no fun, but in a way you are right, they get used to the inconvenience, so additional hard labor would be a good move.

It would be better if it was rolled out worldwide with all countries participating and abolish the death penalty, as some countries implement this soon after sentence giving the perpetrators a speedy end.

You would also remove the ammunition and objections by the ' woke brigade ' and the lefty ' human rights '  groups by not sending them to their death.

Oh.  How immensely sad.  That sort of inhumanity, and yet this is a stark reminder that beings (I don't want to use the word 'human') like this dwell among us.

52 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

I like the Saudi way of doing things and Eye for an Eye

So it's right. A life for a life !

10 hours ago, webfact said:

The seven men were also ordered to pay financial restitution to the families of all those killed in sums varying from 400,000 to 2 million baht. 

After being sentenced to death, what's the worst that could happen if they don't ? 

Killing them in silence is just too good for them. Others who committed non violent crimes get to spend X years in Bangkok Hilton.... Yet these sick murderers will only suffer the moment previous to the bullet hitting their skull, or the drugs from the injection entering their bloodstream. 

Killing them in the middle of the town, like others suggested, is equally sick and disgusting for today's world. 

The best solution would be forced labor, making something productive for the rest of the society, until the day they die from over working whatever. That way they would really suffer for the crime they committed.

7 hours ago, dddave said:

Normally, I'm opposed to capital punishment but those convictions crumble when I contemplate the horror and terror the victims of these arrogant scum must have experienced in their last moments.

I find myself wishing for old "Khun Chavoret", the Last Executioner" to re-appear with his single machine gun loaded with 14 bullets and that the condemned be placed in a line and dispatched one at a time, with the leader: "Bung Fat" last to go.

A warning to all Thai citizens that there is a payback time .

This method is fairly guaranteed, or as in China, bullet to the brain.

   Oh   I  Know  Barbaric.     welll  so is murder\Geezer

On 3/20/2021 at 11:51 AM, Stargrazer9889 said:

This method is fairly guaranteed, or as in China, bullet to the brain.

   Oh   I  Know  Barbaric.     welll  so is murder\Geezer

Far to quick.

On 3/19/2021 at 7:58 AM, RichardColeman said:

On 3/18/2021 at 9:33 PM, webfact said:

The seven men were also ordered to pay financial restitution to the families of all those killed in sums varying from 400,000 to 2 million baht. 

After being sentenced to death, what's the worst that could happen if they don't ? 

 

My guess is that the restitution edict will allow authorities to attach whatever assets they may leave behind.  Otherwise, their estates would probably just pass to their heirs.

18 hours ago, SW Happy said:

Far to quick.

No spiritually they would not know when their last breath is and their spirit stays stuck in this world for a long time. So beheading is quite brutal.