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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.
The execution of an inmate on Thursday by Taiwan, marking the first death penalty carried out by the island’s authorities in five years, has sparked condemnation from rights groups.. Death row ...
In September, Taiwan's constitutional court ruled that the death penalty is constitutional but only for the most serious crimes with the most rigorous legal scrutiny, after considering a petition ...
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 ...
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.
After 11 trials, in 2011, the Supreme Court reached a verdict that sentenced Chiou to the death penalty. The case has gained notoriety due to the lack of evidence for connecting Chiou and the 11 to the murders and the tortures they received in order to confess. [1] As of 2024, Chiou is the longest-serving death row inmate in 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 ...