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Supreme Court upholds death sentence against Maj Chalermchai

The Supreme Court Friday upheld the lower courts' guilty convict and death sentence against Maj Chalermchai Majchaklam for murdering a Yasothon governor in 2001.

The court upheld the rulings of the lower courts that Chalermchai, alias Major Tueng, and two accomplices - Sgt Manit Srisa-ard and Sgt Suwat Kham-ngao, murdered Prina Lepattana, then Yasothon governor, on March 4 2001.

The murder took place inside the Royal Pacific Hotel on Rama IX Road.

The court said the three checked in into a room close to the slain governor and there were evidences to believe that the three attacked the governor by stabbing his neck and shooting him at his head.

Pisarn Wibulsilp, the lawyer of Chalermchai, said Chalermchai would plea for leniency from the Corrections Department due to his military service.

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'Chalermchai would plea for leniency from the Corrections Department due to his military service'...

I don't know about that... surely it's one more reason that he should be executed. People in a position such as his should know better and expect the worst if they do wrong. No one is above the law.

Exactly, Cameron Po (Nicolas Cage) in 'Con Air' got a longer sentence because he was a soldier and his body was a lethal weapon due to his Ranger training.

The murder for which he was sentenced to death is not his only crime. The guy is rotten to the core.

he was a little too stupid though. the way they tried to cover the traces in that hotel room right next to his own room is legendary.

slightly smarter he would continue doing his businesses.