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The story in Body has parallels to an actual crime case in Thailand, about Dr. Wisut Boonkasemsanti, a gynaecologist who also taught in the Faculty of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University. He was convicted and sentenced to the death penalty for the 2001 death of his wife, Phassaporn, who was also a gynaecologist.
Thailand retains the death penalty, but carries it out only sporadically. Since 1935, Thailand has executed 326 people, 319 by shooting (the latest on 11 December 2002), and 7 by lethal injection (the latest on 18 June 2018). As of March 2018, 510 people are on death row. [2] As of October 2019, 59 are women and 58 are for drug-related crimes.
Brokedown Palace is a 1999 American drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, and starring Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, and Bill Pullman.It deals with two American friends imprisoned in Thailand for alleged drug smuggling.
Because nearly all of California inmates with capital sentences have been moved off of Death Row and placed in regular high-security prisons — such as California State Prison, Sacramento, near ...
The first 2 executions were by gas inhalation; all subsequent executions were by lethal injection, [2] following a 1996 federal court (9th Circuit) ruling that the use of the gas chamber in California was unconstitutional. [3] A further 2 people sentenced to death in California (Kelvin Malone and Alfredo Prieto) were executed in Missouri and ...
Bang Kwang contains Thailand's primary men's death row and execution chamber. Death rows for both men and women also are present in provincial prisons. [5] As of March 2018, 510 persons remained on death row nationwide. [6] As of 1995 there was one man from the United Kingdom on death row at Bang Kwang, Alan John Davies. He was the first ...
California voters rejected two initiatives to repeal the death penalty by popular vote in 2012 and 2016, and they narrowly adopted in 2016 another proposal to expedite its appeal process. [10] On August 26, 2021, the California Supreme Court upheld the state's death penalty rules though as of 2024 executions have yet to resume. [11]
Theerasak Longji (Thai: ธีรศักดิ์ หลงจิ, 1992 – 18 June 2018) was a Thai convicted murderer who was executed by lethal injection for the robbery and murder of a 17-year-old boy, whom he stabbed a total of 24 times. He was convicted, sentenced to death, and executed at Bang Kwang Central Prison. He was the first ...