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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Chalerm pushes for early execution of drug convicts

The Nation

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BANGKOK: -- Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm on Thursday vowed to push for law amendments to have drug convicts executed 15 days after the Appeal Court's verdict upholds the death sentence.

He said he would propose an amendment to the criminal procedure code so that drug convicts who appeal to the Central Appeal Court but have their death sentences upheld by the Court are executed within 15 days of the Court's decision.

He said that if the drug convicts were simply jailed, they could deal drugs from behind bars and mingle with other criminals. "Criminal meeting criminal equals arch-criminal. I won't listen to National Human Right Commission or NGOs, because I answer to the country and the public."

He was speaking after presiding over a press briefing for the Wednesday drug bust that seized 1,020,000 Yaba tablets and 20kgs of crystal meth (also known as ice) worth Bt400 million from a house in Pathum Thani's Lam Lukka district and second-hand car dealer shops, used as cover-up businesses.

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What about the King's right to pardon under the Constitution? Is he going to wave a magic wand to dispense with that?

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To be fair, that is 15 days more than his boss was giving even to suspected drug dealers. However, maybe the procedure gets more "efficient" after the puppet masters return.

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This gets more and more crazy by the day,how on earth is someone supposed to get an appeal together,and a court hearing in 15 days,

and if you can't raise the money to pay your lawyer,your f******

Perhaps he would rather have some more extra Judicial killings,and save the expense of an appeal?

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Seems like he's moving to shooting them on the spot of the crime. The police are always right, the majority confess at a photograph session and/or reenactment. Shooting extrajudicially is where they are heading. No appeal, no "tainted evidence," no unusual circumstances, no alibis, just line them up at the wall and get out the old machine gun. Think of all those tainted fish balls that can be saved.

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HRW must love this guy.

This insane war on drugs is a waste of human lives and public money.

The most logical would be to legalize all drugs. Even some US Republicans are starting to get this idea.

Although yaba is a hell of a drug, you might as well legalize it. All drugs in fact. All the criminality will disappear.

Not saying it should be a free for all. You can still have restrictions. Not under 18, only sell between 11-14 and 17-midnight etc.

Sadly, drugs will never be legalized in this country. Too many people are making boatloads of money out of it.

edit: Just though of something. Calling for the repeal of drug laws could be construed as LM.

You seem quite intellegent.

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This gets more and more crazy by the day,how on earth is someone supposed to get an appeal together,and a court hearing in 15 days,

and if you can't raise the money to pay your lawyer,your f******

Perhaps he would rather have some more extra Judicial killings,and save the expense of an appeal?

This is getting more and more like Captain Blackadder's trial every day!

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Perhaps Chalerm who in another life might have been a rocket scientist could apply the same medicine / help for cop killers...... ah.. i guess it doesn't work so well then does it. Maybe Thailand has a new hub claim that it could fulfill ;). Thailand could be the hub for dispensing this type of summary justice and punishment. Of course Thailand can continue being the hub for government buying of rice, rubber, pineapple, pork, pig heads and tapioca to boot.

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Presumably the Bangkok Policemen caught bang to rights with a large amount of yaba wil be executed quickly! And his son who murdered a policeman will receive the same fate! Nah, don't think so somehow. It is the same the world over, not exclusive to Thailand. It's not what you know, it's who you know. Of course, Chalerm is probably too stupid to appreciate this truism. Or maybe he is not! Every time this guy opens his mouth he digs a deeper hole. Isn't his son now a prominent member of the Government? One would think that the deputy Prime Minister would keep his head down in the light of all these facts, but no, he can't resist claiming the high moral ground, even though anyone with limited intelligence knows that he is on very dodgy ground. His mentor in Dubai must be very proud of him, keeping up the double standards we have come to know and expect from these criminals.

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Worse is coming. Look to Germany, 30s.

That's a bit of a stretch but there is something to the way some governments use brutal authoritarian methods to desensitize their populations and prepare them for even worse. This kind of development in Thai society, reminiscent of the Thaksin policies, is not encouraging.
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15 days? This is just pure insanity.

Can we hold him responsible, personally, if there is ever someone executed that should not have been?

Then he has ordered their murder, plain and simple.

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15 days? This is just pure insanity.

Can we hold him responsible, personally, if there is ever someone executed that should not have been?

Then he has ordered their murder, plain and simple.

These policies are popular with most Thai people. Thaksin proved that. What can we do but cringe?
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Presumably the Bangkok Policemen caught bang to rights with a large amount of yaba wil be executed quickly! And his son who murdered a policeman will receive the same fate! Nah, don't think so somehow. It is the same the world over, not exclusive to Thailand. It's not what you know, it's who you know. Of course, Chalerm is probably too stupid to appreciate this truism. Or maybe he is not! Every time this guy opens his mouth he digs a deeper hole. Isn't his son now a prominent member of the Government? One would think that the deputy Prime Minister would keep his head down in the light of all these facts, but no, he can't resist claiming the high moral ground, even though anyone with limited intelligence knows that he is on very dodgy ground. His mentor in Dubai must be very proud of him, keeping up the double standards we have come to know and expect from these criminals.

Seems to me I heard his son was in charge of toilets or some equally important post.

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It's one way to stop the tourist from comming.

Just the thought of being in the wrong place at the right time

and then ending up getting shot for drugs that have been planted for tea money

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