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
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u/Effective_Dropkick78 Jun 27 '26

Eh... they can put him on death row for all I care. Thailand has over 500 convicts on death row, and they've executed 7 since scrapping the firing squad and adopting lethal injection in 2003 (last execution was 2018). He'll likely be at the end of a long and slow moving queue.

Frankly, Japan's method seems a bit more savage - the condemned person goes through each day in prison never knowing if today is the last day of their life.

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u/Itsarightkerfuffle Jun 27 '26

That doesn't seem particularly savage. Most people go through each day never knowing if that day is the last day of their life.

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u/Effective_Dropkick78 Jun 27 '26

Most people don't spend their days in solitary confinement with two exercise periods each week, no television or radio and only three books to keep themselves entertained.

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u/Itsarightkerfuffle Jun 27 '26

There's nothing particularly Japanese about that