Thailand executes 1st prisoner by lethal injection since 2009
— 19th June 2018
NAN
Thailand has executed its first prisoner since 2009, the Department of Corrections said on Tuesday, a move the human rights group Amnesty International condemned as a “deeply misguided” effort to reduce crime.
Theerasak Longji, 26, was executed by lethal injection at Bang Kwang Central Prison north of Bangkok on Monday.
“He was found guilty of murdering a 17-year-old boy in 2012,’’ the department said.
He was the seventh person to be executed by lethal injection since Thailand introduced the method in 2003 to replace execution by firing squad.
However, before Monday, the last people executed were two Thai drug dealers in 2009.
“This is a deplorable violation to the right of life,” Amnesty’s Thailand campaigner Katherine Gerson said of Theerasak’s execution.
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