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
- NOVEMBER 6, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A first-year student from Kasetsart University, Jitra,...
A first-year student from Kasetsart University, Jitra, was held hostage and killed at knife-point by an amphetamine-driven abductor
- NOVEMBER 5, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Forcing 63 Burmese immigrants to return home could...
Forcing 63 Burmese immigrants to return home could put their lives in danger, said Wasant Panich, a member of Thailand's National Human Rights Committee, as authorities revealed a plan to send the immigrants back by leaving them at a border village in Bur
- NOVEMBER 1, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Bangkok Southern Criminal Court sentenced a convicted...
The Bangkok Southern Criminal Court sentenced a convicted Thai drug trader to death and two Burmese to life imprisonment for possessing almost two million amphetamine tablets with intent to sell
- OCTOBER 25, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The get-tough campaign against drugs could be paying...
The get-tough campaign against drugs could be paying off in Thailand, said the Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister responsible for supervising drug suppression
- OCTOBER 25, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A Briton faces the death penalty in Thailand after...
A Briton faces the death penalty in Thailand after being accused of involvement in a heroin-smuggling ring
- OCTOBER 9, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court of Thailand postponed till 2002 the...
The Supreme Court of Thailand postponed till 2002 the consideration of the appeal of Ukrainian citizen Viktoriya Mamontova, sentenced to death for smuggling drugs on August 17, 2001
- OCTOBER 2, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A woman was sentenced to life in jail for possessing...
A woman was sentenced to life in jail for possessing methamphetamine pills with intent to sell
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Death row is so overcrowded with the most inmates it...
Death row is so overcrowded with the most inmates it has ever seen that more jail cells are being made available to separate prisoners and keep them from conspiring with each other, the Corrections Department said
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Death row is so overcrowded with the most inmates it...
Death row is so overcrowded with the most inmates it has ever seen that more jail cells are being made available to separate prisoners and keep them from conspiring with each other, the Corrections Department said
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe Walter...
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe Walter Schwimmer asked Thailand's authorities to take all possible measures to lift the capital punishment meted out to the Ukrainian citizen Viktoria Mamontova
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Two men were sentenced to death for possessing 113...
Two men were sentenced to death for possessing 113 kilograms of heroin with intent to sell
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Two Chinese Haw tribesmen, Ar-hong sae Soo, 27, and...
Two Chinese Haw tribesmen, Ar-hong sae Soo, 27, and Ar-sing sae Lee, 28, and a Burmese drug dealer, Ar-liang sae Chern, 28, were sentenced to death by the Criminal Court
- AUGUST 31, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court sentenced 12 men and five women...
The Criminal Court sentenced 12 men and five women to death on speed smuggling charges in six separate drug cases
- AUGUST 24, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Ampai Saiphoo, 26, was executed by a pistol shot
Ampai Saiphoo, 26, was executed by a pistol shot
- AUGUST 22, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Southern Bangkok Criminal Court sentenced to death...
The Southern Bangkok Criminal Court sentenced to death Kang Duay, 40, Nee Khaewa, 27, and Dee Bai, 19, after they were convicted on charges of possessing 60,000 methamphetamine pills with intent to sell
- AUGUST 17, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Thonburi Criminal Court sentenced to death a Ukrainian...
The Thonburi Criminal Court sentenced to death a Ukrainian woman for having 1
- AUGUST 10, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Khwan-on Natthaphon, 27, Was sentenced to death by...
Khwan-on Natthaphon, 27, Was sentenced to death by the High Court after being found guilty of murdering taxi driver Ong Huay Dee
- AUGUST 3, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The number of convicts on death row has risen dramatically...
The number of convicts on death row has risen dramatically to 326, the most there has ever been since the Corrections Department was set up
- AUGUST 2, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Four men and a woman were sentenced to death in the...
Four men and a woman were sentenced to death in the South Bangkok Criminal Court for smuggling methamphetamine pills across the border in Chiang Rai to sell at fuel stations in central provinces
- JULY 31, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A Thai court sentenced 14 drug dealers, including three...
A Thai court sentenced 14 drug dealers, including three women, in four separate trials, to death despite criticism from international human right organizations that the court has become an assembly line of death
- JULY 27, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty activists should consider the dangers of drugs...
Amnesty activists should consider the dangers of drugs to society before begging for mercy for drug convicts on death row, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said
- JULY 26, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court needed only three months to hand...
The Criminal Court needed only three months to hand down death sentences against 19 convicted drug traffickers because the court had been trying the four cases nonstop, Criminal Court Chief Justice Sombat Tiewissaret said
- JULY 26, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Death row at Bang Khwang maximum security prison is...
Death row at Bang Khwang maximum security prison is to be expanded to take on more drug convicts, the Corrections Department said
- JULY 25, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Thailand's criminal court sentenced 19 drug dealers...
Thailand's criminal court sentenced 19 drug dealers to death, the largest number ever handed the maximum penalty in one day
- JULY 25, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A police general denied that special death squads were...
A police general denied that special death squads were planning to kill 1000 drug traffickers this year, and had already sent "350 to hell
- JULY 25, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
THAILAND CONDEMNS 19 TO DEATH
July 25, 2001: Thailand´s criminal court sentenced 19 drug dealers to death, the largest number ever handed the maximum penalty in one day.
- JULY 23, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court sentenced to death two foreigners...
The Criminal Court sentenced to death two foreigners and a Thai for trafficking heroin
- JULY 13, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Kittisak Wongchan and brother-in-law Danai Wongrian...
Kittisak Wongchan and brother-in-law Danai Wongrian were sentenced to death by the Chiang Rai provincial court for possessing approximately one million methamphetamine pills and 20 kilogrammes of heroin
- JULY 4, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Pong Ketsiri, 64, was executed by a firing squad in...
Pong Ketsiri, 64, was executed by a firing squad in a Bangkok prison after being convicted of smuggling 275lb of heroin into Thailand
- JUNE 28, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Foreign prisoners' chances of clemency under a Royal...
Foreign prisoners' chances of clemency under a Royal Pardon from Thailand's King may have ended under a tougher government stance against drug traffickers