23 April 2001 :

And English Bangkok Post reader, Leslie Sturges, said "I share the disgust of right-thinking people across the world at the appalling crime of drug trafficking but I am sad to learn that four more offenders were executed by firing squad on April 18.The death penalty is wrong in all cases. World-wide studies show that it does not have a deterrent effect any stronger than that of other strict but humane punishments. The death penalty brutalises everyone involved in its application. Your paper would do well to campaign against this out-of date and barbaric practice."