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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 most recent execution took place on 1 April 2020. By 31 December 2023, 37 of the 45 individuals on death row will have their sentences finalised and face the possibility of execution.
Taiwan's Justice Ministry said in a statement that Huang Lin-kai had been executed at the Taipei Detention Centre, having been sentenced to death in 2017 for the 2013 murder of his ex-girlfriend ...
16 January – Huang Lin-kai becomes the first person to be executed in Taiwan since 2020 after having been convicted for the 2013 rape and murder of his ex-girlfriend and the murder of her mother. [1] 21 January – A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits Chiayi County, injuring 44 people. [2]
Taiwan practices the death penalty by shooting, and conducted one execution each in 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2025. [ citation needed ] Hong Kong and Macau are listed below (they abolished the death penalty before their handover to China), but they are not included in the figures above as they do not have UN membership separate from China.
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan's government raised its travel warning for China on Thursday, telling its citizens not to go unless absolutely necessary, following a threat from Beijing last week to ...
Martial law was declared twice in Taiwan in 1947, due to the February 28 incident. The first period of martial law was enacted by Chen Yi, Chief Executive of Taiwan Province on 28 February 1947. It was lifted shortly on 2 March 1947 by request from members of the Taiwan Representative Council and the National Assembly hoping to cool down the ...
1963: Chen Chih-hsiung: Former ambassador of the Republic of Taiwan Provisional Government with Swiss citizenship being kidnapped by KMT agents from Tokyo in 1959, Japan, Chen was the first executed Taiwanese independentist with an axe cutting his feet off to pull his hands up through the path to the execution field.