On January 19, Deputy Interior Minister Vatana Asavahame...

19 January 1999 :

On January 19, Deputy Interior Minister Vatana Asavahame in response to an appeal for abolition made by Amnesty International said: "Capital punishment is still needed in order to deter criminals from committing crimes, and the Corrections Department is studying changing executions by gunfire to the administration of lethal injections."
 

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