THAILAND: CHALERM PUSHES FOR EARLY EXECUTION OF DRUG CONVICTS

In Thailand, Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Ubumrung vowed to push for law amendments to have drug convicts executed 15 days after the Appeal Court's verdict upholds the death sentence.
He said he would propose an amendment to the criminal procedure code so that drug convicts who appeal to the Central Appeal Court but have their death sentences upheld by the Court are executed within 15 days of the Court's decision.
He said that if the drug convicts were simply jailed, they could deal drugs from behind bars and mingle with other criminals. "Criminal meeting criminal equals arch-criminal. I won't listen to National Human Right Commission or NGOs, because I answer to the country and the public."