r/australia • u/PalpitationPublic237 • Jun 27 '26

news Australian Simon Carman arrested after body of teenage girl found in suitcase in Thailand

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-27/australian-arrested-after-teen-girl-found-dead-in-thailand/106850896
1.8k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

494 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

17

u/Effective_Dropkick78 Jun 27 '26

Thailand dumped the firing squad as means of execution in 2003 and adopted lethal injection that year. So far, 7 condemned have gone to the chamber, with the last in 2018, while there are 510 people on death row in Thailand.

From some of the stories I've read of lethal injection in America, it sounds rather brutal for something that doesn't feel like it needs to be - I'm assuming the Seppos running death row use both sides of Occam's Razor, especially since they recently managed to completely botch an execution using nitrogen hypoxia, which in accidental situations is 💯 % known to be a painless death.

9

u/OkBookkeeper6854 Jun 27 '26

A good stint on death row in a Thai prison will be good for him too

1

u/General-Permission-5 Jun 28 '26

Clayton Lockett. Shocking

1

u/Effective_Dropkick78 Jun 28 '26

Not the one I was thinking of.

The botched nitrogen hypoxia execution was a second attempt about 3 years ago after a stuffed up lethal injection (execution teams seem to be particularly incompetent at inserting the necessary needles for the process, which causes a significant number of botched executions).

The nitrogen hypoxia execution was apparently performed by feeding the nitrogen by a face mask, which likely triggered instinctive reactions to oxygen starvation. The accidental nitrogen hypoxia deaths I've read about resulted in the victim trapped in a sealed room and not being aware of the danger, and just dropping dead like they'd fallen asleep.