Thailand
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- constitutional monarchy; note - interim military-affiliated government since May 2014 Constitutional monarchy - provisional military government since May 2014
- CONSTITUTION
- many precedents; final draft concluded on March 29, 2016, approved by referendum on August 7, 2016, signed by the king on April 6, 2017; note - the final version has several amendments not reflected in the one adopted by the referendum (2016)
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on the civil system with influences of English common law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- In transition; following the military coup of May 2014 - National Legislative Assembly or Sapha Nitibanyat Haeng Chat
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, judges appointed by the King
RELIGIONS
94.6% Buddhists; 4.6% Muslims; 0.7% Christians; 0.1% others
From the country
- SEPTEMBER 28, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
On September 28, Visanu Chokthavee Sarp had his death...
On September 28, Visanu Chokthavee Sarp had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment
- SEPTEMBER 24, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Also on September 24, Criminal Court judges sentenced...
Also on September 24, Criminal Court judges sentenced to death three drug traffickers, Napol "Lao-U" sae-Ten, Lao-koh sae-Yang and Lojoi sae-Li linked to Li Yun-chung, the high-profile suspect whose bail-jumping, arrest in Burma and subsequent extradition
- SEPTEMBER 24, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
On September 24, Visanu Chokthavee Sarp, 42, a Thai...
On September 24, Visanu Chokthavee Sarp, 42, a Thai businessman convicted of cheating a state firm of about US$176,000 assets by the Vietnamese Appeal Court on July 2, had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment following intervention by the Thai
- SEPTEMBER 21, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
On September 21, the Criminal Court in Bangkok indicated...
On September 21, the Criminal Court in Bangkok indicated that Thailand is unlikely to extradite Yoshimi Tanaka, 51, a former member of the now-defunct Red Army faction within 1999
- AUGUST 4, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
On August 4, Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai appealed...
On August 4, Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai appealed by letter to Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Khai to spare the first Thai national sentenced to death on a fraud charge
- AUGUST 1, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
In August, a leading member of the Opposition, Sanoh...
In August, a leading member of the Opposition, Sanoh Thienthong, proposed that the Government impose capital punishment on those producing or possessing narcotics, as the most effective way to wipe out the problem
- JULY 20, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
On July 20, Noppadol Khaektao, 30, was executed at...
On July 20, Noppadol Khaektao, 30, was executed at Bang Khwang prison
- JULY 7, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
On July 7, Decha Suwannasuk, 38, was executed by machine...
On July 7, Decha Suwannasuk, 38, was executed by machine gun at Bang Khwang prison for raping and killing his 4-year-old daughter in July 1997
- JUNE 21, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
On June 21, Phan Saithong, 34, and Samruay Tosuk, 41,...
On June 21, Phan Saithong, 34, and Samruay Tosuk, 41, were executed by machine gun at Bang Khwang prison
- JUNE 10, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
On June 10, the Supreme Court upheld the verdicts of...
On June 10, the Supreme Court upheld the verdicts of the Criminal Court and the Appeals Court in sentencing Sompong Boonrith and Samak Toopbuchakorn for the abduction and murder in 1986 of Sherry Ann Duncan, an Amerasian girl who was then 16 years old
- MAY 14, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, Obon John Khok Kroad, a Thai national, was...
On May 14, Obon John Khok Kroad, a Thai national, was executed in the town of Ha'ir, in Riyad Region of Saudi Arabia for killing his Saudi sponsor, Milhim Bin Sa'ud Bin Milhim Bin al-Subay'i, by bringing down a larger cleaver on his head and other parts o
- APRIL 27, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
On April 27, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence...
On April 27, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence imposed on Thawee Phuttachan, 42, a former Chiang Rai MP, for having paid, between December 1994 and April 1996, people to kill Saengchai Sunthornwat, director of the Mass Communications Organizatio