Fighting for human rights: Activists from Amnesty International demonstrating outside the Bang Kwang Central Prison to protest against the death penalty in Bangkok, Thailand. — Reuters
BANGKOK: Thailand carried out its first execution in nine years, putting to death a man who killed a teenager for his mobile phone, in a move that has drawn condemnation from rights groups.
Theerasak Longji, 26, was executed by injection on Monday after being convicted of aggravated murder for stabbing his 17-year-old victim 24 times to take his mobile phone.
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