Thailand
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or...
- News items in the archive
- 448
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Thailand is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 448 news items on Thailand, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JULY 10, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A Thai court handed two Thai hill tribesmen the death...
A Thai court handed two Thai hill tribesmen the death sentences after finding them guilty of murdering an Australian tourist and raping his female companion in early 2000
- JUNE 28, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Southern Bangkok Criminal Court found Vinai Charoensrisomboon,...
The Southern Bangkok Criminal Court found Vinai Charoensrisomboon, alias To Texas, guilty of the premeditated murders of three members of the Mangkornhong family and sentenced him to death penalty
- JUNE 28, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Three male convicts at Bang Kwang Central Prison in...
Three male convicts at Bang Kwang Central Prison in Nonthaburi were executed a prison official said
- JUNE 16, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Siwa Saengmanee, the corrections department official...
Siwa Saengmanee, the corrections department official director general said that the number of convicts facing the death sentence has risen to 609
- JUNE 11, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International accused Thailand's police and...
Amnesty International accused Thailand's police and army of widely using torture in prisons and while interrogating criminal suspects
- MAY 30, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Preparations are being made for execution by lethal...
Preparations are being made for execution by lethal injection, which will be used at three prisons starting in 2003, replacing the current method of shooting, Corrections Department director general Siwa Sangmanee said
- MAY 8, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The European Commission has adopted the Country Strategy...
The European Commission has adopted the Country Strategy Paper, which sets out a five year (2002-2006) strategy for its financial assistance to Thailand
- MAY 8, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The European Commission has adopted the Country Strategy...
The European Commission has adopted the Country Strategy Paper, which sets out a five year (2002-2006) strategy for its financial assistance to Thailand
- MAY 3, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The son of an influential politician was charged with...
The son of an influential politician was charged with murder, a day after his dramatic surrender ended a six-month manhunt
- APRIL 26, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Three doctors and a hospital manager in Thailand were...
Three doctors and a hospital manager in Thailand were charged with conspiracy to murder patients for their kidneys
- APRIL 26, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International urged Thailand to scrap the death...
Amnesty International urged Thailand to scrap the death penalty following five executions in a Bangkok prison on April 24
- APRIL 25, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Thailand voted against the resolution 2002/77 on the...
Thailand voted against the resolution 2002/77 on the death penalty at the 58th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 24, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Five prisoners were executed at Bang Kwang Maxium Security...
Five prisoners were executed at Bang Kwang Maxium Security Prison in Thailand
- APRIL 21, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Thai Criminal Court sentenced four men to death...
The Thai Criminal Court sentenced four men to death for possessing more than 31 kilograms of heroin with intent to sell, although three of them had no drugs on them when they were arrested
- APRIL 15, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Bangkok Criminal Court sentenced a man to death...
The Bangkok Criminal Court sentenced a man to death for killing his wife while under the influence of drugs
- APRIL 3, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Appeals Court upheld the death sentence for a 65-year-old...
The Appeals Court upheld the death sentence for a 65-year-old man found guilty of shooting dead a woman and her son
- APRIL 1, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Two army officers and a civilian were sentenced to...
Two army officers and a civilian were sentenced to death after the Criminal Court found them guilty of possessing 40,000 methamphetamine pills with intent to sell
- MARCH 17, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Two middle-aged women were sentenced to death by the...
Two middle-aged women were sentenced to death by the Southern Bangkok Criminal Court for possession of methamphetamine pills with intent to sell
- MARCH 14, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A 21-year-old Thai masseuse was sentenced to death...
A 21-year-old Thai masseuse was sentenced to death for smuggling 600 grams of heroin from Thailand into Indonesia in September 2001
- MARCH 12, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is taking measures to...
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is taking measures to have the death sentence lifted from Ukrainian national Viktoria Mamontova, who was convicted of heroin possession and sentenced to death in Thailand
- MARCH 8, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court sentenced to death a woman convicted...
The Criminal Court sentenced to death a woman convicted of trafficking 29 kilograms of heroin
- MARCH 1, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
In Thailand a woman on trial for nearly a year on a...
In Thailand a woman on trial for nearly a year on a drug trafficking charge died of heart failure minutes before she was acquitted
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A Singapore court sentenced two Thai men to hang for...
A Singapore court sentenced two Thai men to hang for a gangland-style killing of a countryman who ran a vice den, court documents showed
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A Thai man facing the death sentence for murdering...
A Thai man facing the death sentence for murdering a taxi driver in Singapore has little chance of avoiding execution, a senior labour official said
- FEBRUARY 19, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A special agency with staff from the Corrections Department,...
A special agency with staff from the Corrections Department, warfare units and police has been set up to handle riots and jailbreaks at prisons all over Thailand
- FEBRUARY 15, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A Thai worker who murdered a taxi driver in Singapore...
A Thai worker who murdered a taxi driver in Singapore and stole his valuables is scheduled for execution on March 6
- JANUARY 28, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The coalition whips rejected two draft amendments to...
The coalition whips rejected two draft amendments to the Penal Code in regard to international terrorism and the abolition of the death penalty for minors
- JANUARY 20, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Two men, a Thai and a Burmese, were sentenced to death...
Two men, a Thai and a Burmese, were sentenced to death for possessing 200,000 speed pills with intent to sell
- JANUARY 18, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The PM's Office Minister Thammarak Issarangkura na...
The PM's Office Minister Thammarak Issarangkura na Ayuthaya said Thailand had seized over 500 million baht worth of drug suspects' assets in the 2001
- JANUARY 17, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Nigerian embassy in Bangkok confirmed the execution...
The Nigerian embassy in Bangkok confirmed the execution of five Nigerians by firing squad in Bangwang, Thailand, for drug trafficking