23 April 2001 :

Human rights groups in Thailand started a petition to get the government to stop publicising executions of drug traffickers and murderers, describing the act as inhumane.
Over 16 non-governmental organisations have grouped together to condemn the April 18 public telecast of five convicts before they were executed.
It was part of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's plan to publicise the fate of drug traffickers in the kingdom's war against drugs. But the public outcry that followed the proceedings may have destroyed the aim of the whole exercise.
Somchai Homlaor, of the Human Rights Committee, Law Society of Thailand, said, "The way the Thai government did it is against the humanity of the people. They don't have the right to talk and meet with the family before being executed. And to show the pictures of the prisoner just only 1 or 2 minutes before being shot is against humanity."