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Two men dead in a game of Russian roulette

  TWO of six young men drinking in Ayutthaya early this morning (Feb. 18) died in a game of Russian roulette with the same bullet passing from the head of the person who fired the shot to his friend sitting next to him, Thai Rath newspaper said. At 3.30 a.m. Pol. Lt. Col. Narathip Suthon,

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Tu Hao and 40 others hit with several charges, face death penalty

  THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL filed a string of charges against a key Chinese grey capitalist suspect and 40 others today (Jan. 19) with drug-related offences carrying maximum death penalty, Thai Rath newspaper said this evening. At 3 p.m. today Ms.  Naree Tantasathien, the attorney-general, ordered the Office of Narcotics Litigation to submit the 332-page indictment of

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Death sentence for Joe Ferrari reduced to life in prison

THE Central Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases this morning (June 8) sentenced Pol. Col. Thitisan Uttanaphon, aka Superintendent Joe Ferrari, and six of seven of his subordinates to death for intentionally torturing a drug suspect to death with two plastic bags but this was commuted to life imprisonment because of mitigating circumstances, Sanook.com

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