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 THAILAND‘S FINAL EXECUTIONER
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Lagt på d. 10/06-2007 10:05
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THAILAND‘S FINAL EXECUTIONER Most of us have relatively mundane jobs, certainly when compared to Chavoret Jaruboon. He used to be among Thailand’s 12 official executioners. In his time, he’s executed a total of 55 people, 3 women among them, by shooting them in the back. A novel variation on crucifixion, for his victims are strung up to a cross, making his aim easier as he targets their hearts with an allowance of up to 15 bullets. [img]http://www.pattayadailynews.com/images_news/008_en/0000003119/pic1.jpg[/img] is not a valid Image.[img]http://www.pattayadailynews.com/images_feature/008_th/0000000474/p1.jpg[/img] is not a valid Image. Hardly the most pleasant of jobs, but considerably more humane than in the past. This in a world social climate where the trend is to do away with capital punishment altogether in favour of more acceptable, productive penalties. More enlightened countries like those of Western Europe favour life imprisonment, where the term “life” usually means 25 years, and the prisoner can look forward to being released at the end of that term. Certainly Thailand’s method of capital punishment is considerably more humane than Saudi Arabia’s, for example, where executions are public, involving beheading with swords. Likewise, Thailand’s system is more acceptable than some other Islamic countries where female victims are still stoned to death for adultery, as recently witnessed in Iraq. But there again, it was only in 1934 that Thailand abandoned its medieval style of beheading practices, where the severed head was mounted on a pole and the decapitated body was sliced up to be fed to birds of prey. [img]http://www.pattayadailynews.com/images_feature/008_th/0000000385/p1.jpg[/img] is not a valid Image.[img]http://www.pattayadailynews.com/images_feature/008_th/0000000385/p2.jpg[/img] is not a valid Image. Shooting prisoners on Death Row with silenced sub-machine guns for such crimes as murder or dealing drugs has now been replaced with death by lethal injection, adopted in 2003; but condemned prisoners still have to go through the harrowing ordeal of not knowing exactly when they are to be executed. The prison guard just enters the cell one fateful day, sometimes after the inmate has been in jail for years, points at the hapless prisoner, cries “You!” and then drags them out to their nemesis, while they cling pathetically to any object to hand to prevent their captor fulfilling his appointed task; needless to say, to no avail. Mr. Chavoret no longer performs such onerous tasks as execution these days. He changed jobs three years ago. After 20 years of putting condemned prisoners to death, he has become the Head of the Foreign Prisoners' Section at Bangkok's Bang Kwang Central Prison, - the infamous Bangkok Hilton - where he’s in charge of a collection of 500 foreign offenders from 44 countries, including the US, Europe, Africa and Asia. Some of these criminals are still on Death Row, noticeably not Westerners, but Chinese, Burmese, Lao, Nigerian and, of course, Thais. Having retired from the “killing room” hasn’t softened his views on putting condemned prisoners to death, however, Mr. Chavoret still adopts a hard line towards serious offenders. He maintains that Thais in particular need to be kept under strict control and he advocates capital punishment as a deterrent. Although he acknowledges that taking life is condemned under Buddhism, he agrees with the Jewish principle of an eye for an eye. He considers that the punishment fits the crime, being retribution for the bad karma of the criminal and is thus justifiable. The executioner’s face is hidden from the victims behind a screen. Some maintain that this is so the ghost of the executed person can’t return to exact revenge. In the days of beheading, the executioner used to leap upon the victim to decapitate them from behind. The further back one goes in back in Thai history, the more gruesome the method of execution. Prior to the execution proper, tortures such as hammering nails under the prisoners’ fingernails and severe whippings were the norm. Back in the 15th century, the royalty were callous in the extreme, advocating breaking open the skull and inserting a red-hot iron, forcing the brain to spurt out in boiling torrents. Another favourite was to shackle the elbows and knees, insert a stake to render the victim immobile and then burn the hapless victim to death with a flaming torch. Finally, lest especially we of the Enlightened West become too self-righteous, let’s not forget the method of execution prevalent in England at the same time as those depicted above, namely hanging, drawing and quartering, as admirably displayed in the movie “Braveheart”. This method made the Thai executions seem almost like child’s play. The victim was first strung up on the gallows, but cut down before death. Then they were disemboweled by having a hook thrust into the entrails, which were then drawn from the stomach and finally, the victim was tied by the limbs to four horses, which on being whipped, tore the body limb from limb. Only then was the hapless victim finally dead. Pleasant, heh? [img]http://www.pattayadailynews.com/images_feature/008_th/0000000474/p7.jpg[/img] is not a valid Image.[img]http://www.pattayadailynews.com/images_feature/008_th/0000000474/p8.jpg[/img] is not a valid Image. http://www.pattay...0000003119 |
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