Vietnam court upholds drug smuggler's death sentence

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Vietnam court upholds drug smuggler's death sentence

Published: 7 Oct 2012 at 00.00
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Vietnam's Supreme Court has refused to commute the death sentence of a 24-year-old Thai woman who smuggled narcotics into the country, according to the Saigon Daily.

The Supreme People's Court in Ho Chi Minh City has upheld the lower court's death sentence against Preeyanooch Phuttharaksa, the newspaper said on its website.

Preeyanuch was arrested in October of last year after customs officials at Tan Son Nhut Airport found more than three kilogrammes of methamphetamine hidden inside her luggage. Before her arrest, Preeyanuch had sneaked drugs into Vietnam twice, according to the indictment.

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bubbs
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Discussion 8 : 07 Oct 2012 at 09.098
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Should be looking at the root cause, the hoochies from Soi 3 that are giving nothing to society here except drugs and misery. As usual the Old Bill does nothing as it is obviously paying well
I hope she gets her sentence commuted as although I believe in the death penalty she does not deserve it for being greedy and stupid
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Discussion 7 : 07 Oct 2012 at 07.467
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Third time lucky...

I feel sorry for the girl, but seriously, do some people never learn? Rather make a quick buck by smuggling drugs than doing an honest day's work. I can't really say that disagree with harsh punishment although I don't think capital punishment is a good deterrent.
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Discussion 6 : 07 Oct 2012 at 07.376
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Sad to see her die since the death penalty is far too severe a punishment considering the nature of the crime. She gets death while the liquor and cigarette industries operate as legit businesses. Still, there really is nothing mitigating about this particular case that warrants anything less than the standard sentence, and if she were a male, I doubt very much this story would receive the attention it has.
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Discussion 5 : 07 Oct 2012 at 06.455
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Very sad such a young life wasted.
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Discussion 4 : 07 Oct 2012 at 06.394
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This is a tragically ugly business. In this case, the drug smuggling appears to have been done for mainly profit. For some reason, judging from the plentiful supply of drugs and the frequent stories of capturing couriers with huge supplies, Thailand seems to have more than it's share of suppliers and protection from high officials. The tragedy in all of these cases of death sentences handed out is that it won't make one bit of difference in the trade. The people at the top seldom get caught and less often are punished. My real resentment are the stupid, weak people who think that life doesn't provide enough for them and believe that drugs will provide excitement or whatever else they feel their dead end lives are lacking. Their pathetic weakness is costing so many lives and ruining so many others that those are the ones that can live in the hell they create for themselves, or, hopefully, the one authorities can can create for them.
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Discussion 3 : 07 Oct 2012 at 05.453
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Why waste the life of a young woman who was clearly manipulated as a pawn in a larger game? Nigerian drug gangs operate openly in Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City. But the the highest risk operations are passed off onto gullible young women who are seen as expendable by the gangs.

Perhaps law enforcement officials should protect their citizens by doing something about the obvious problem of gang related drug smuggling, and not wait until wayward young women are killed in the name of the law.
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Discussion 2 : 07 Oct 2012 at 05.342
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If Thai Laws are as strict as other countries's Thailand would not have the problems it is facing now. The criminals go free. If they know some one or pay enough to get away with murder.
How many Thai citizen must die because they break the laws in other countries?
and how many criminal Thais and non Thais could get away because the thai court could be bought?
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Discussion 1 : 07 Oct 2012 at 03.281
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Vietnam executes criminals with lethal injections, which replaced the firing squad last year.

How civilized!
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