Death sentence upheld for former Thai principle convicted of killing 3 people, including a toddler

Thailand’s Supreme Court upheld a demise sentence for an ex-elementary college principal convicted of killing three folks, together with a toddler, throughout an armed gold store theft in 2020.

The courtroom dominated Wednesday that Prasitthichai Khaewkao didn’t deserve a discount in his authentic sentence, calling the capturing in a shopping center in Lopburi province “outrageously, ruthlessly inhuman” in a press release launched Friday. 4 folks had been injured within the assault and a shop clerk, a safety guard and a 2-year-old boy had been killed.

Prasitthichai was discovered responsible in August 2020 and given a demise sentence on fees together with first-degree murder, killing in fee of one other crime and illegally carrying a gun. The Enchantment Courtroom additionally upheld the demise penalty in 2021.

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The Supreme Courtroom mentioned the defendant, as a instructor and a headmaster, ought to have behaved as a very good position mannequin for college students, however as a substitute dedicated a critical crime. Due to this fact, it mentioned there was not sufficient grounds to grant his attraction for a sentence discount.

Prasitthichai Khaewkao, heart, arrives on the Bangkok Felony Courtroom in Bangkok, Thailand, on Aug 27, 2020. Thailand’s Supreme Courtroom on April 26, 2023, upheld a demise sentence for the ex-elementary college principal convicted of fatally capturing three folks throughout a gold store theft in 2020. (AP Photograph, File)

Safety footage of the capturing was broadly broadcast and despatched a shockwave throughout the nation. One video confirmed a person wearing a black ski masks and camouflage trousers, with a backpack throughout his chest, carrying a pistol with a silencer as he entered the Robinson Lopburi mall. One other digicam on the gold store confirmed the person firing his pistol, and the toddler, who had been strolling hand-in-hand with an grownup, all of the sudden falling to the bottom. The person grabbed numerous gold necklaces earlier than fleeing.

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Chatting with reporters after his arrest, Prasitthichai denied that he intentionally shot the toddler and different victims. He mentioned he opened fireplace to intimidate buyers and safety guards so he may flee simply.

Based on the information from the Division of Corrections, Thailand had 250 inmates on demise row as of the tip of February, of which 23 had their sentence upheld by the Supreme Court.

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Seven folks have been executed since Thailand switched from utilizing a firing squad to deadly injection in 2003. Thailand’s most up-to-date execution was in 2018.