Abstract:Chapter 3, the first of the book’s four case study chapters, provides an outline of the death penalty laws and practice of Thailand during the period 1991–2016, describes Thailand’s clemency laws and accumulated practice in death penalty cases over the same period, and most importantly provides several theoretically supported hypotheses potentially explaining Thailand’s extremely ‘high’ clemency rate of 95 per cent or more. This structure is reprised in each of the four case study chapters, leading to a compar… Show more
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