Early release for Dr Wisut raises questions: Death penalty

[rametindallas]

others say it is important to give the people - especially those without a criminal nature - a chance to turn over a new leaf and become a good member of society.

 

It's pretty clear that 'others' are people who have not been victims of these predators. I am not for punishing them, I just want them segregated from non-violent people for the rest of their lives.

[Langsuan Man]

This guy was released because he is part of the hi-so class by virtue of  his a medical degree and had good lawyers nothing else.  No thought of the victim because she was a woman and in Thai society she was his chattel and he could do with her what he wanted

 

The method he used to dispose of her body (cutting it up in pieces to be flushed down the toilet) sort of negates the crime of passion argument 

 

Hopefully her family can file a civil lawsuit and garnish his salary for the rest of his life but knowing Thai law they probably can't because that would be defamation !!!!!

[Basil B]

An interesting read on the death penalty  "When murderers were hanged quickly"

 

Justice came swiftly. The trial of 24-year-old Evans and Allen, who was 21, began on 23 June at Manchester Assizes. On 7 July the men were found guilty and sentenced under the 1957 Homicide Act to suffer death "in the manner prescribed by law".

Their appeal was heard just two weeks later - and dismissed the next day. A final appeal for clemency was rejected by the Home Secretary on 11 August. Less than five weeks elapsed between conviction and execution.

The speed of the process, even with two lives at stake, was not unusual. A delay covering three Sundays between sentencing and execution was all the law stipulated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28688474

Edited August 8, 2014 by Basil B

[peecee]

Are these people paying their way out or what?

 

You got connections here & it's a get out of gaol almost free card!

[peecee]

It's perfectly normal to have a pardons process in the judicial system. In Thailand case, as the article obliquely says, its done on "special occasions," which everyone here should know and understand.

 

But the point that deserves addressing is: Why should inmates who receive the death penalty for grisly or multiple murders be able to get pardoned down to very short sentences (particularly when counting in pre-sentencing detention time).

 

If you're going to have a pardons process for death row inmates, let it be doing from death to life in prison, or 50 or 30 years. But to go from a death sentence to 10 years for the kinds of crimes mentioned in the OP is beyond belief.

 

 

Except Thailand were $,Bt,£'s etc count for far more than the victims.

[tominbkk]

A whole 7 years for chopping his wife up into little pieces and flushing her down the toilet.

[arunsakda]

In Japan the same sentence is given for murdering an adulterous wife. Out in 4.5 for good behaviour. A foreigner with a sack of weed will get 10.