Thailand’s biggest serial killer suspect legally protected from the death penalty as horror grows

[webfact]

Dr Nitiphan Nuchit stunned viewers on a popular Channel 3 TV show, hosted by news presenter Kanchai Kamnodploy. He also broke down as he recalled his own personal trauma as he now believes that Ms Sararat or ‘Am Cyanide’ took the life of his wife and the mother of his young children by sending her a diet pill in the post from which she died in front of the infants. (Inset top left) Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan ocha last week told reporters that he wanted to see a decisive but honest and methodical investigation into the swirling allegations and charges before the accused woman, 36-year-old Sararat Rangsiwutthaporn (centre).

 

by James Morris and Son Nguyen

 

The scale of the horror linked with this case is mind-numbing with each case representing, by the callous nature of the murders, a deeply traumatic incident for the families of the victims. The vast majority of them were women and all had financial dealings with Ms Sararat. Indeed, this week, police revealed that one of the most effective ways to detect victims was by examining the bank accounts of the main suspect, now being held at Bangkok’s Central Women’s Correctional Institution and insisting on her innocence.

As the police screen more incoming reports of suspicious deaths linked with what officers suspect to be Thailand’s biggest-ever serial killer, Ms Sararat Rangsiwutthaporn, one story in recent days of a doctor working with the Royal Thai Police stood out as particularly harrowing. The doctor appeared on the country’s popular Channel 3 TV telling top host, Kanchai Kamnodploy, on the daily news programme that he believed his wife was poisoned by a pill sent to her after she had just given birth to the couple’s infant daughter in November 2020.

 

The harrowing story comes as concerns also grow that the alleged killer, Ms Sararat, also now known infamously as ‘Am Cyanide’ may be legally protected from the death penalty because of her pregnancy under Thailand’s legal system as police continue to open new probes into suspicious deaths with many of those victims identified on Ms Sararat’s bank statements as depositors of large sums before eventually meeting tragic ends under very similar circumstances.

 

The scale of evil associated with what appears to be Thailand’s biggest serial killer now known by the sobriquet ‘Am Cyanide’, has engulfed Thailand in recent days.

 

Full story: https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2023/05/01/serial-killer-suspect-am-cyanide-sararat-legally-protected-from-death-penalty/

 

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[ezzra]

Being jailed for the rest of your life with no chance of parole is worse than death specially when the offender is young, although I'm not sure what is the penalties for a mother with a newly born baby,

just curios, are those cyanide pills so easily available to buy? 

[sidneybear]

15 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Being jailed for the rest of your life with no chance of parole is worse than death specially when the offender is young, although I'm not sure what is the penalties for a mother with a newly born baby,

just curios, are those cyanide pills so easily available to buy? 

Probably not in your local pharmacy. Sodium cyanide is an industrial chemical, so not hard to get hold of.

[ChipButty]

Being pregnant will save her from the death penalty in Thailand, 

[ChipButty]

27 minutes ago, sidneybear said:

Probably not in your local pharmacy. Sodium cyanide is an industrial chemical, so not hard to get hold of.

Her sister is a Pharmacist, I think  

[Pique Dard]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

as ‘Am Cyanide’ may be legally protected from the death penalty because of her pregnancy

is it being cynical to say death  penalty won't bring back the deads?

[ukrules]

13 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Being pregnant will save her from the death penalty in Thailand, 

What if the trial drags on for years and she's no longer pregnant?

[ChipButty]

13 minutes ago, ukrules said:

What if the trial drags on for years and she's no longer pregnant?

Tricky one, I'm not sure how many months gone she is, The welfare of the child will come first and I think she is allowed to keep the baby in prison up to the age of 3, I think she would be sentenced before then. 

[ikke1959]

I think the capital punishment is the best.. In public .... because life sentence sounds worse, but it will cost the society a lot and this kind of people the world can miss.... No endless process.. just proven to be guilty   and a few days later the execution

[Straight8]

Thai jails are not like some jails in the west, so life in a Thai jail may well be worse that death.

 

[tandor]

29 minutes ago, ukrules said:

What if the trial drags on for years and she's no longer pregnant?

i have read some countries have allowed those pregnant prisoners to give birth then proceeded with the execution after the new born has been placed in Foster Care. Im trying to find some references to post.

[tandor]

58 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Her sister is a Pharmacist, I think  

Yes, her sister is a Pharmacist, but knows nothing!!!

Not revealed of course which preparation the accused used, however, there is also Potassium Cyanide (NaCN) and Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN). A fullToxicology Analysis will reveal this by Mass Spectrometry.

Going by the number of alleged fatal poisonings it seems authorities have only a few blood samples to work with, and of course degredation of the levels of Cyanide (CN) will be crucial to prove was enough to cause death.

Alas, everything else is circumstantial and hearsay.

[ukrules]

25 minutes ago, tandor said:

i have read some countries have allowed those pregnant prisoners to give birth then proceeded with the execution after the new born has been placed in Foster Care. Im trying to find some references to post.

This trial might not even take place for a year, she won't be pregnant when she faces eventual trial.

 

They never execute anyone immediately. The child will be many years old in the unlikely scenario that any execution is ever carried out even if she is sentenced to death.

 

So assuming she's not pregnant at the trial and the baby is long gone am I supposed to believe that if she was pregnant at the time of arrest then that's it - the sentence is pre-determined due to her condition at the time of arrest?

 

She certainly wasn't pregnant when all these murders happened due to the amount of time which has elapsed, she may have been doing this for many years before being detected.

[ChipButty]

30 minutes ago, tandor said:

i have read some countries have allowed those pregnant prisoners to give birth then proceeded with the execution after the new born has been placed in Foster Care. Im trying to find some references to post.

Could you trust her with a new born baby? 

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

Being pregnant will save her from the death penalty in Thailand, 

But not multiple life sentences I hope.

[Darksidedude]

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

Being jailed for the rest of your life with no chance of parole is worse than death specially when the offender is young, although I'm not sure what is the penalties for a mother with a newly born baby,

just curios, are those cyanide pills so easily available to buy? 

agree let the witch  suffer and rot in hell

[gomangosteen]

There have only been three executions in Thailand (by lethal injection) since 2003.

 

Two in 2009, one in 2018.

 

With a death row in excess of 500 sentenced prisoners, whatever some may wish for, a death sentence seems less likely to be carried out.

 

Edited May 1, 2023 by gomangosteen

[tandor]

45 minutes ago, ukrules said:

This trial might not even take place for a year, she won't be pregnant when she faces eventual trial.

 

They never execute anyone immediately. The child will be many years old in the unlikely scenario that any execution is ever carried out even if she is sentenced to death.

 

So assuming she's not pregnant at the trial and the baby is long gone am I supposed to believe that if she was pregnant at the time of arrest then that's it - the sentence is pre-determined due to her condition at the time of arrest?

 

She certainly wasn't pregnant when all these murders happened due to the amount of time which has elapsed, she may have been doing this for many years before being detected.

i agree totally...prisoners have been known to impregnate themselves too, to avoid execution.

[tandor]

48 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Could you trust her with a new born baby? 

the baby would be taken immediately after birth as per babies for adoption, surrogacy

Edited May 2, 2023 by tandor

[Rotweiler]

There are more strange aspects to this case.  In Thailand even minor criminals are arrested in handcuffs (or with handcuffs even before they are formally arrested).  Yet this bigshot's wife (or ex-wife, as the case may be) never had cuffs or chains put on her.

[Skeptic7]

Pop the kid out, then pop her OUT. Problem solved. 

 

No freakin' way she could ever be even a semi-fit mother. She should never be permitted to touch that child and that child should never see it's monster. She would probably kill the infant, or try to. 

[Henryford]

10 minutes ago, tandor said:

i agree totally...prisoners have been known to impregnate themselves too, to avoid execution.

How do you impregnate yourself?

[tandor]

18 minutes ago, Henryford said:

How do you impregnate yourself?

syringe from a donor

[dinsdale]

Death penalty won't stop the next one from coming along at some stage in the future. These people have problems with their wiring. 

[ChrisKC]

2 hours ago, Pique Dard said:

is it being cynical to say death  penalty won't bring back the deads?

No, just obvious!! 

[Chongalulu]

2 hours ago, Pique Dard said:

is it being cynical to say death  penalty won't bring back the deads?

It does offer a 100% guarantee against reoffending…

[Zack61]

3 hours ago, ezzra said:

Being jailed for the rest of your life with no chance of parole is worse than death specially when the offender is young, although I'm not sure what is the penalties for a mother with a newly born baby,

just curios, are those cyanide pills so easily available to buy? 

I agree. Death would be too quick and easy. Life imprisonment would be the better option with no chance of a pardon or parole.

[Bangkok Barry]

2 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Being pregnant will save her from the death penalty in Thailand, 

That's a good thing. Because you could write it another way and say being pregnant will condemn her to spending the rest of her life enjoying the delights of a Thai jail. A much better punishment.

At the same time it raises an interesting point. There are those who say that executing someone is inhumane, but those same people would see spending 20-30 years in a squalid jail as a humane alternative.

[mikebell]

2 hours ago, ChipButty said:

she is allowed to keep the baby in prison up to the age of 3, I think she would be sentenced before then. 

In the land of lawyers?  I think you are being very optimistic.