PUBLISHED: 17 Dec 2024 at 19: 11
According to deputy government spokesman Kharom Polpornklang, the cabinet rejected a request from the National Human Rights Commission ( NHRC ) on Tuesday to abolish the death penalty in Thailand.
Mr. Kharom claimed that the cupboard accepted the NHRC’s proposal but accepted the judgments of the justice systems, which argued that the death penalty remained essential given the nature of some crimes.
He claimed that the NHCR recommended the end of the death penalty because it was a serious punishment that had been eliminated in several nations.
staff from the NHRC presented a plan to be carried out in four steps, which may eventually lead to the end of the death sentence at a recent conference to tag World Day Against the Death Penalty.
The four recommendations included removing the dying charges from new laws and amending existing ones to allow the courts to consider other methods.
Additionally, the plan demanded that the death penalty be reviewed in a way that is significant to the crime.
The final step is to ban all legislation from imposing the death penalty.
The legal field would help a costs attempting to end the death sentence in Thailand, it was agreed at the workshop that the decision to do away with it was a problem for human rights advocates.