No.or all death rows are the same in all countries that maintain the capital punishment in their systems. thailand is one of them and it is precisely the fate that could await daniel sanchothe Spanish chef accused of premeditated murder and who is in the koh samui prison awaiting trial. While the litigation begins, we tell you what death row is like and what the inmates’ objective is.
If convicted, the son of actor Rodolfo Sancho awaits the method that the Southeast Asian country has used for decades: the lethal injection. Before he must spend a long period on death row, a place where nobody wants to end up and that It’s full of criminals of all kinds.being the most common the one who has committed a murder.
The most famous criminals in Thailand and the target of them all
As echoed by El Mundo, There are 520 inmates on death row. in Thailand, there are just over 20 foreigners and, among them, the most common crime is related to drug trafficking.
They all have the same wish, that the day of the King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s birthday. Only he has the power to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment, so it is common for the inmates to write letters of clemency to the monarch, who usually pardons some of them on his anniversary. It is precisely what happened in 2020 with the Spanish Arthur Segarraconvicted of murder in 2016 and whose sentence was modified by the king.
On death row are the most famous assassins in Thailand, such as Somkid Pumpuang, the so-called ‘Thai Jack the Ripper’, who killed and dismembered five female masseurs between January and June 2005. There is also Nirut Sonkhamhan, known for poisoning nine taxi drivers and killing four of them. More recently there is the case of Sararat Rangsiwuthapornarrested in April after killing 14 people with cyanide.
