DANIEL SACHO | This is the death penalty in Thailand: the method used

2024-08-28 20:00:00

Daniel Sancho Bronchaloborn in 1994 and the son of a famous Spanish actress Rodolfo Sanchowho was imprisoned in Thailand for more than a year after possession confess to murder of Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, 44 years old. He arrived on the island of Koh Phangan on July 31 last year, where he met the victim, a Colombian plastic surgeon himself. found the next day dismembered in a landfill and in the sea.

After investigation, the Thai police determined that it was a premeditated murder, committed alone. That’s why you ask for those death penalty.

Thailand is one of the 55 countries in the world where the death penalty is still in force, according to data from Amnesty International. In 2021, 35 death sentences will be carried out in that country, according to the same group.

Thai Penal Code

Thai law provides, in articles 288 and 289 of its penal code, the death penalty for murder cases – when there is a precedent, although it is usually commuted to life imprisonment. If convicted of murder, the sentence is between 15 and 20 years.

However, the judicial process faced by Sancho is complex, because he can appeal to two other courts and can finally ask for forgiveness from King Maha Vajiralongkorn.

This is what happened with the Spanish too Arthur Segarrawho was sentenced to death – and who had his sentence commuted in August 2020 to life imprisonment – for murdering and dismembering the Spaniard in 2016 David Bernat.

Bangkok Prison

If the death sentence is carried, it will be carried out Bang Kwang Prison in Bangkok (also known as ‘Bangkok Hilton‘), the prison that, for the time being, Sancho has managed to avoid: it is among those Roh Samui Prison Centerin the south of the island.

However, the lawyer in the case is sure that they will be transferred to Surat Thani prison if the sentence is longer than 15 years.

Currently, there you are 254 people on Thai death rowalthough no execution has occurred since 2018, as data from the organization World Coalition Against Fine Deaths.

Amnesty International used the same figures for executions, although it reduced the number of people sentenced to death to 123 by the end of 2023.

The latest was that of a 28-year-old Thai citizen who received a lethal injection after being convicted of robbing and killing a young man in 2012. It was the first execution since 2009.

lethal injection

Thailand legalized lethal injection in 2003replace executions. Although it may vary from country to country, execution by lethal injection usually involves large doses of three chemicals. According to the data from Amnesty International, these include sodium thiopentothal, pancuronic bromide and potassium chloride. Them organization explained that “first [sustancia] “It is a barbiturate that causes the prisoner to lose consciousness, the second is a muscle relaxant that relaxes the diaphragm, thus preventing breathing, and the third causes cardiac arrest.”