BANGKOK: Buddhist monks sprinkled holy water on machine guns at a prison outside Bangkok yesterday, as lethal injection officially replaced death by shooting as Thailand's method of capital punishment.
At a religious ceremony at the Bangkwang maximum security prison, 319 balloons were also released, representing the spirits of all the convicts executed by machine gun over the past 71 years.
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