Thailand’s last prison executioner, Chavoret Jaruboon, fired eight bullets into a rapist and murderer in 2002. It was his fifty-fifth execution, and the last of its kind. (Executions in Thailand are now done by lethal injection.) He tells all in The Last Executioner, a memoir written in English with coauthor Nicola Price. “Those who had nothing to lose – those whose their parents were dead, or their wife or lover had ditched them, or those that had lost all their money – were calm when walking to their death,” Chavoret told the Malaysian Star.com. “So were hitmen.” In the book, he writes: “All I had to do was pull the trigger. It is very easy to empty your mind and just shoot,” he confessed in his memoirs. To the reporter, he explained: “Not all of them die instantly. I needed to keep shooting for three to five minutes for some of them to die.” If not tied up properly, “the convict could wriggle. And when the bullets missed his heart there would be lots of agonising screams.”