Two developments on opposite sides of the world, in Thailand and the United States, underscore a troubling reality: some governments continue to embrace the death penalty regardless of the global movement to abolish state-sanctioned killings.
On June 11, a court in Bangkok, Thailand, sentenced Bilal Mohammed and Yusufu Mieraili, two Uyghur men, to death for their alleged roles in the 2015 bombing of Bangkok's Erawan Shrine, which killed 20 people and injured many more. The men have spent nearly 11 years in detention since their arrest.
