Thai Appeals Court upholds death sentence for dancing gunman

[Si Thea01]

I wonder if the real reason for halving the gaol sentence is that they want to save on the costs of keeping him for 6 month and want to be rid of him sooner rather than later.

[vijer]

The death penalty is too kind, better to lock this fudk up in a 2x3 cell with little light and little food and let him live like that for 50 years. That is punishment. Death is the end of suffering. Way to lenient.

[vogie]

That's great, don't hear the outcome of these too often. BTW, how many more appeals is he entitled too? Also, is he out on bail yet?

The gunman did not appear to hear the sentence today as he was detained at Bang Kwang Prison in Nonthaburi province.

Maybe he will read it on Thai Visa

[doremifasol]

He got a reduced sentence 'cause judges liked his dance.......

[Docno]

"His behavior after the shooting was also considered an insult to the law, it said."

What does this even mean? The law in Thailand seems really 'sensitive' ...

[Krataiboy]

Doubtless, if this deranged individual had been able to claim that he was drunk at the time he would have got off with a lesser sentence.

This appears to be standard practice in courts around the world where imbibing too much alcohol is accepted as mitigation for violent crimes such as murder, manslaughter and sexual assault.

Could anything be more illogical, with alcohol blamed for something like 60 per cent of all serious crime? The law is clearly in a muddle when it comes to drink-related offences.

In developed countries, motorists over the limit are automatically fined and banned irrespective of whether they have harmed anyone. Yet if that same individual were to rob, kill or rape they could actually cite inebriation as an extenuating circumstance!

Things need to change. We have to stop kidding ourselves, both as individuals and societies, that we can “handle” alcohol.

The social and financial cost of over-indulgence on its current scale shows all too clearly that we cannot

We must also insist that what is sauce for drunken motorists is also sauce for pickled pedestrians, by enforcing existing laws which would sweep binge drinkers and alcohol-sodden potential criminals off our streets.

Few people get plastered by accident – a fact which the courts must begin to face when determining sentences. Individuals who offend while under the self-induced influence of alcohol deserve harsher, not lighter, punishment for their crimes.

[rickirs]

Mr Yossaphon Hae-kla should offer to pay the 2.6 million baht by volunteering to work on a fishing boat at 300 bay a day. Once paid off in about 24-30 years then they can put him to death.

[cookee68]

They halved the 6 months jail sentence, are they on drugs or what, he is going to die so what was the point, how silly they look

[beowolf2012]

maybe Thailand have to employ George Bush. Then there maybe will be much more executions....

[DaveE13]

I remember feeling ill watching the Video this animal needs putting down soon.