The Last Executioner

[poisoner]

'Between 1984 and 2002, Chavoret Jaruboon shot dead 55 prisoners. In his autobiography, “The Last Executionerâ€

[dtaai-maai]

I'm not sure why the expats' opinion is of more interest than anyone else's, but for what it's worth...: I'd rather have my head flushed down the loo of the overnight train to Butterworth than read that book.

Well, you did ask. Unfortunately, you seem to have caught me in a grumpy phase...

[poisoner]

not at all, respect for your opinion

[Randy Cornhole]

I started a thread about this about 1 month ago and it never got a reply? Quite a good book, if a bit thin on story line....

[Governor]

I am actually reading the book at the moment and find it an interesting read, it was recommended to me by an old mate who works at the UK Embassy.

I will be visiting Bang Kwang in the next couple of weeks, so I might even get to meet the author.

[Georgy Porgy]

Hope you are a relative of an inmate or you won't get in to visit.
Very strict new rules at the moment. Check with your old mate at the Embassy.
The author is employed in the Foreign Visits Office so you will be certain to see him, and he will sign your copy of the book too.

[poisoner]

what is the translation of the book like?, and would you say it's an interesting read?
thanks in advance
al

[lomuamart]

Hope you are a relative of an inmate or you won't get in to visit.
Very strict new rules at the moment. Check with your old mate at the Embassy.
The author is employed in the Foreign Visits Office so you will be certain to see him, and he will sign your copy of the book too.

When was that regulation brought in, GP?
I'd always thought the you can visit pretty much any inmate you want, but it's best to contact their Embassy first to smooth things over.
If that's the case - and I have no reason to doubt you - I'd have thought it a severe infringement of human rights. As long as the proper channels are followed and the inmate isn't in solitary, I'd have hoped they have a right to a visit from anyone, not just family.
The contact visits in the courtyard may be another matter though. Are you sure you may not have mixed the two types of visit up? I've got no idea, but would be interested to have that clarified.

[redzonerocker]

i love reading autobioraphies but this one, 'quote randy' seems a bit thin on storyline.
judging from the picture of the gun set up, it would be impossible to miss. the story of the gun jamming has a bit of intrigue but how many of the other 54 executions offer anything other than , bang! , you're dead?
any reviews from anyone that has read the whole book?

[lomuamart]

I havn't read the book, but my understanding of the execution process was that the executioner simply sighted the gun on a target placed on the back of the condemned. Through the heart, from the back.
The bit I'm not sure of is that the trigger was pulled by a timing/sort of egg timer thing. Therefore the executioner didn't actually pull the trigger.
What I do know to be case, having got the BBC documentary on Bang Kwang here is that the Prison's minister who abolished firing squad is on record as saying that it could make a mess and the condemned didn't necessarily die straight away, so it's lethal injection now.

[poisoner]

I always assumed that it would be a firing 'squad', so one single gun really offers a large margin for error (not that I fancy lethal injection either )

[redzonerocker]

or hanging, gas chamber or electric chair

[poisoner]

YOU GOT THAT RIGHT !

[Randy Cornhole]

The Gun was sighted by one officer and fired by another. It fired several rounds at once (up to 15 I believe)
The best tale was the woman who was executed, and after 12 rounds were fired into her heart, was prenounced dead and carried to the next room. 1 min later a groan was heard and on looking she was trying to get up off the table!!! Turns out her heart was on the right hand side of her body and not the left like the rest of us!!! Freaky eh....

[Georgy Porgy]

The original Thai version was much more blood thirsty - just like the local newspapers.
The new visits instructions are being instituted by a new Commondant. Even Embassies are facing new rules and, on occasions recently, have been refused entry. Which I also would think is in abuse of International Conventions.
The Commondant is saying that family members, missionaries and Embassies can only visit on designated days (according to Building number), and inmates can receive only one visit of any sort per week.
Even Embassy letters are not able to ''sort it'' as they could a few months ago.
Hopefully things may calm down soon at Bangkwang. Meanwhile you can visit Klongprem on designated days providing you have the name of the inmate. Parcels and letters admissable to both institutions.
Women's prison no parcels whatsoever, only letters permitted.