Posted on 03/11/2017 6:10:09 PM PST by BBell
David Miller and Hannah Witheridge were brutally bludgeoned to death with a wooden hoe while walking along the beach at night
The family of a murdered British backpacker are hoping authorities will "show leniency" when sentencing them for their horrific crimes.
Despite losing their son David Miller, 24, who was killed alongside Hannah Witheridge, 23, the family are hoping the killers will receive a long jail sentence to reflect on their crimes as opposed to the death sentence.
The young backpackers were killed in a savage attack in September 2014 while walking back to their hotel along a beach in Koh Tao.
Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin, both 22, were found guilty of murder in 2015. After they were convicted, both were sentenced to death.
But the family of David Miller said in a statement this week that they hoped the authorities would "show leniency".
They said: "We remain confident that this is the correct decision. We hope that the Thai authorities will show leniency in relation to the death sentence.
"We have always said that we did not want innocent men sentenced, nor guilty parties acquitted on a technicality. In the end, we believe that the evidence is overwhelming and we feel that justice has been done.
"We attended most of the court process and had the benefit of excellent, unbiased translation provided by long-term family friends from Thailand throughout."
David Miller, from Jersey, and Hannah Witheridge, of Norwich, were battered with a wooden hoe as they walked back to their rooms.
Hannah was raped during the ordeal in September 2014.
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I don't think I could be so lenient.
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Death by hoe.
I would say the death penalty. No more scum bags living off any tax payer
Predators such as these, ALWAYS see mercy as weakness. There will be no remorse to what they did. They will look at the parents as weak, pathetic beings and will repeat their predatory pursuits, likely murdering their next victims more painfully and slow.
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We see this with Muslims. There is a tremendous difference between the Judeo-Christian worldview and other inferior worldviews. This is chief amongst them
Hang them gently...
Please, may the firing squad be lenient with those bullets.
This has got to be one of the most asinine anti-death penalty arguments that has ever been invented, and it has been around for a long time.
Guess what, softies. Murderers do not sit around in their jail cells pining over the grave crime they have committed or regretting the sorrow they have caused the victims' families. Murders commit premeditated murder because they want to experience pleasure over taking another life. And when they sit around in prison contemplating their crime, they are reliving the glory of that moment and regretting only the fact that they were stopped from repeating that glory. And your desire for leniency only gives them more time to enjoy the memories.
Just execute them. Once they've crossed that line to become murderers, they are no longer human beings.
BTW, I have to wonder if the girl's family has the same view point as the boys.
The family believes that a lifetime in a Thai prison is a more severe punishment.
“In practice, the death penalty is not often used in Thailand. To give you an idea, statistics show that there were no state sanctioned executions during the years 1993-1995, one each in 1996 and 2000, two in 1997 and in 1998, and 11 each in 2001 and 2002. The highest number in recent years was in 1999, when there were 16.
A great many more death sentences are delivered but never carried out. For example, in 2010, there were 87 death sentences handed down, but only a few of these have thus far resulted in executions and few more are likely to.
http://www.thaiprisonlife.com/prison-stories/capital-punishment-in-thailand/
Yep, I said they believe it’s worse, I didn’t say they were right!
Not surprising as long as everyone understands that Useful Idiots exist in far greater numbers than anyone could ever imagine.
“The family believes that a lifetime in a Thai prison is a more severe punishment.”
This is the ONLY time I have ever thought the person arguing against the death penalty may be correct. I think the murderers may be more miserable spending life in a Thai prison than they would dead.
if Thais want to execute these two killers, let them do it...
You sound like you could be talking about the U.S.
The Thais make a whole lot of money off of tourism. Do you think this might effect whether these guys are executed or not? It’s bad for business when tourists are being raped and murdered. The Thais may want to make an example out of them.
*shrug* It’s not Club Fed, is it?
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