thailand retains the death penalty, but rarely employs it. since 1935 thailand has executed 326 persons, 319 by firing squad (the last was shot on 11 december 2003), and seven by lethal injection, the latest on 19 june 2018. , 517 persons remain on death row. bang khwang central prison contains the nation's primary death row, but death rows exist in provincial prisons, for both men and women. , 59 women are on death row, 58 of them for drug-related offenses.