Thailand's criminal court has sentenced 17 convicted drugs traffickers to death.
The sentences handed down late last night follow the July 25 sentencing to death of 19 drug dealers, the largest number ever handed the maximum penalty in one day.
Twelve men and five women were yesterday convicted in six separate cases of trafficking more than one million speed pills, or methamphetamines, the Bangkok Post reported.
It said two of the men were under 18 years old. Four of those sentenced to death were foreigners, two from neighbouring Burma and two from Laos.
Suspects caught with more than 100 grams of class-A narcotics under Thai law eligible are for the death sentence.
Fighting drug trafficking and growing addiction levels among young people has been one of the top priorities of the government since it swept to power at the start of this year.
Thailand forms part of the notorious Golden Triangle - where the Thai, Burma and Laotian borders meet - one of the world's top heroin-producing regions.
But the production of methamphetamines has been increasingly supplanting opium and heroin as the main threat.
Thai authorities estimate the number of the stimulant tablets being trafficked across its borders from makeshift factories run by ethnic minority gangs in Burma will reach 800 million this year.