Lethal injections will replace death by machine gun in Thailand from October 19 - and the executioner couldn't be happier. Chaowares Jarabun, who has lost count of how many men he has gunned down during his 30-year career at Bangkok's Bang Kwang Central Prison, is out of a job and loving it.
'I'm very happy,' he told a source inside the prison. 'I've never enjoyed this job, but it's a job all the same. Believe it or not, I hate guns. I think in this day and age, (lethal injections) are better.'
He also revealed that he was untroubled by the small army of men, and occasionally women, he had despatched.
'Can I sleep at night? Like a baby,' he said.
Six months ago, he told a local magazine: 'I have shot two women. One had a long history of previous offences, and had killed an infant by packing it full of heroin and trying to carry it across the border to Malaysia. What can we do with people like this?'
He has executed three prisoners this year out of 950 prisoners currently on death row - many for drug offences following the Thai government's much publicised 'war on drugs'. Of those prisoners, 44 have exhausted all appeals and are awaiting execution, although 16 have appealed to King Bhumibol Adulyadej for a royal pardon.