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A sign at Taoyuan Airport warning that drug trafficking is punishable by death. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Taiwan.The list of capital offences, for which the death penalty can be imposed includes murder, treason, drug trafficking, piracy, terrorism, and especially serious cases of robbery, rape, and kidnapping, as well as military offences, such as desertion during war time.
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice. The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
People of American nationality executed outside of the United States by an authority other than that of the United States or a U.S. state. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Prisoners sentenced to death by Taiwan. People who were ultimately executed by Taiwan should be placed in Category:People executed by Taiwan. For people of Taiwanese nationality sentenced to death, see Category:Taiwanese prisoners sentenced to death.
Some foreign companies are considering moving Taiwanese employees out of China after Beijing said it could impose the death penalty on "diehard" Taiwan independence separatists, said four people ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Friday threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for "diehard" Taiwan independence separatists, a ratcheting up of pressure even though Chinese courts ...
Thomas Hartley Montgomery (1873) only Irish policeman sentenced to death for murder; Carey Dean Moore (2018) most recent execution in Nebraska; Harry Charles Moore (1997) most recent execution in Oregon; Patrick Moran (1921) William Morva (2017) last execution in Virginia; Leon Moser (1995) Norishyam s/o Mohamed Ali (1999) Shukri Mustafa (1978 ...
Democracy is not a crime and autocracy is the real "evil", Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Monday after China threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for "diehard" Taiwan ...