just came across this article that extracts contents from the
book ''The last Executioner'' .. made me shrudder.. I do not
want to attach the picture of the lady prisoner as it is really
disturbing watching her being prepared to be shot, i saw the
picture and i am feeling uneasy since, if you really wanna
see the picture it is at
http://www.thaiprisonlife.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=122&Itemid=115
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Probably
the most gruesome record of an execution of a prisoner described in
the book was of Ginggaew, who was a maid and nanny for a wealthy
family. She was only the second woman to have been executed by gun
in Thailand. This happened on 13th January 1979, only three months
after her arrest. Ginggaew had been fired from her job. She later
claimed it was a dispute over the amount of money in her pay
packet. She talked to her boyfriend about this and he came up with
the plan of kidnapping their son and holding him for ransom. So,
Ginggaew picked up the boy from school, like she had done many
times in the past. She then left a randsom note that asked for
200,000 baht. The parents were instructed to take a train out of
Bangkok, and at a designated place marked by a flag, they were to
throw the cash out of the train window. Unfortunately, although the
parents were on the train with the cash, they didn’t spot the flag.
Enraged, the kidnappers turned on the boy and brutally stabbed him.
Ginggaew tried to stop them but she was kicked away. Out of the six
gang members who were arrested, three of them were sentenced to
death. This included Ginggaew who didn’t take any part in the
killing.
At
this time, Chavoret had been promoted from prisoner escort to gun
aimer. This is his account of that execution: “As she approached
the room she had to be revived from another faint. I found this
very difficult to deal with. Between us we finally got the stricken
woman to the cross. She cried while they bound her at the waist,
shoulders, and elbows. Her arms were brought up over the beam in a
position of prayer. Still, she struggled and tried vainly to break
free. The escorts pulled across the screen and fixed it so that the
white square indicated where her heart was. They then stepped away
out of range. I walked to the gun to load it and aim it at the
target on the screen. I was aware that Ginggaew was still
struggling. I secured the gun over her stifled sobs, locking it
into position. When I was satisfied, I nodded at Prathom to take
over. He took his position and at 5.40 p.m. exactly he released ten
bullets into Ginggaew’s body”
The
doctor went over to her body to check for a pulse. After he had
pronounced her dead, her body was brought down from the cross and
carried to the morgue in the adjacent room. Her chest was riddled
with bullets and there was blood everywhere. The escort then went
to bring in the next prisoner. While this man was being tied to the
cross, everyone was distracted by a noise from the morgue. Looking
through the open door they could see that Ginggaew was trying to
raise herself from the slab. The escorts rushed back into the room.
One of them turned her
over and put pressure on her chest to make the blood gush out
faster. Another tried to strangle her. But, Chavoret told
them to stop. It was wrong of them to kill her in this manner. By
this time the second prisoner had been shot and then removed to the
morgue. So, they took her back to the execution room, tied her back
to the cross and then all fifteen bullets were fired into her body.
This time the doctor said she was definitely dead.
