Legal Measures to Impose Absolute Moratorium on Prisoners Facing Life Imprisonment

Abstract

          The Objective of this Research is to study the theory and concept on legal measures to impose absolute moratorium on prisoners facing life imprison in Thailand and other countries, in order to improve legal measure for more efficient system in Thailand.
          This Research is Qualitative Research, which study method are gather information from documents, legal texts, laws, thesis, and academic online research in Thailand and others. There is also a Focus Group for group discussion and information from in-depth interview with 5 different groups of people, including Attorney, Police Department, Prison Agency, Probation Officer, and Administrative staff.
          The Study found that the legal measures to impose absolute moratorium on prisoners facing life imprison have three significant problems. Prisoners facing life imprison will be received change of punishment to 50 years imprison, later can get more punishment reduction. After staying in prison for 10 years, prisoner will be able to get consideration for prison suspension, which is very limited time for life imprisonment. Lastly the Parole Committee are selected by the Executive Power only, which cause transparency problems and can be easily interfered by political parties. Therefore, it deems appropriate to add details to the law, which will prevent prisoners facing life imprison to further receive more punishment reduction after the punishment changes to 50 years imprison. Also add more prison time before getting consideration for punishment suspension to appropriate amount of time served in prison. After the consideration of the Parole Committee, the law should give that power to Judicial Power to make decisions in order to have efficient and transparent process of consideration and prevent interference from Political parties.