Death Sentence
It was rare for Westerners to receive the death sentence in Thailand, which was at the time carried out by machine gun. One other was Australian pilot Donald Tait who in 1987 was being held in a Thai prison awaiting the death sentence for drug smuggling. However by the time of Blake's trial in June 1988 Tait had successfully appealed against the verdict and was back in Australia.
After her sentencing Blake had the distinction of being the first Westerner in modern Thailand to face death by official firing-squad. She was the first Western woman in Thailand to be sentenced to death. No foreigner had been executed in Thailand in preceding decades and there had been no execution of a Thai national on drug charges since the mid-1970s.
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