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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 ...
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 ...
Taiwan: 16 January 2025 [146] Huang Lin-kai rape / murder: firearm: C Tajikistan: April 2004 [147] Rachabmurod Chumayev, Umed Idiyev, Akbar Radzshabov and Mukharam Fatkhulloyev mass murder: firing squad: D Thailand: 18 June 2018 [148] Theerasak Longji: robbery / murder: lethal injection: A Turkmenistan: 1997 [34] D United Arab Emirates: 2021 ...
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.
Life imprisonment is one of the five primary punishments stated in the Criminal code of Taiwan. [cc 1] All prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment are also automatically sentenced to deprivation of citizens' rights for life, [cc 2] which bars the subject from working as a public servant or running for public office.
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 ...