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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.
Taiwan's constitutional court ruled on Friday that the death penalty is constitutional but only for the most serious crimes with the most rigorous legal scrutiny, after considering a petition ...
As with the death penalty, life imprisonment cannot be sentenced to minor offenders (under 18) or elders over 80, and any such cases automatically receive reduced sentences. [cc 5] Since there are no longer any crimes with mandatory death penalty, as a consequence all crimes punishable by death are also eligible for life imprisonment.
In March 2023, the Supreme Court of India freed Niranaram Chetanram Chaudhary after he spent 28 years, six months and 23 days in custody, and was freed from Nagpur jail. At the time of conviction, Chaudhary was 12 years and six months. As per Indian laws, death sentence or any sentence more than three years cannot be awarded to a juvenile. [5]
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 ...
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 ...
In April 2010, the Nantou District Prosecutors' Office sought three death sentences against Lin Yu-ju. [3] [4] [5]On May 20, 2011, the Nantou District Court approved of the death sentences in a combined trial, but in February 2012, when an appeal was filed to the second instance, the Taichung High Court commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.
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 ...