Thailand executes first woman in tw

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Subject: Thailand executes first woman in two decades

Absolutely, ds

Heiko Schaefer wrote:
> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
> slowly I think of a change of the name and aims of my group. What
> Thailand does with Burmese people inside their country as scarcely
> better than Burma. It is time to take a much more closer look on the
> Thai human rights than ever before.
> 
> Metta
> Heiko
> 
> Rangoon Post Co-Editor wrote:
> >
> > Thailand executes first woman in two decades
> >
> >
> > BANGKOK, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Thailand has executed its first female
> > prisoner in two decades, bringing the total number of death sentences it
> > has carried out this year to 17.
> >
> > Samai Pan-intara, 59, a convicted drug trafficker, was executed by
> > machinegun at Bang Khwang maximum security prison on Tuesday along with
> > two convicted murderers, one a Myanmar national.
> >
> > She was arrested with 4 kg (9 lb) of heroin in 1994.
> >
> > A prison official said she was the first woman to be executed in
> > Thailand for 20 years.
> >
> > The two men shot were Prayuth Pholpanthu, 38, convicted of killing a
> > hospital director and a doctor in 1993, and Myanmar national Htaho Pauy,
> > who killed four members of his employer's family with an axe in 1996.
> >
> > Officials said there were a further 40 inmates on death row at Bang
> > Khwang, on the outskirts of Bangkok, the only prison in Thailand where
> > executions are carried out.
> >
> > Thailand resumed executions in 1996 after a break of nine years.
> >
> > Human rights groups have expressed concern at the rising rate of Thai
> > executions.
> >
> > 21:56 11-23-99
> 
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