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Death Penalty (Capital punishment) in Taiwan ★ this site's world No. 1 in 2020~24, 2017~19, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2010~12 ★ Top since 1998 ★ |
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National
ChungCheng University (國立中正大學), 2022-2-14:
study found 76.3%Taiwanese
poll respondents oppose
abolishment of death penalty,18.7%
agree, but supporting measures needed。deptcrc.ccu.edu.tw/index.php?option=module&lang=cht&task=pageinfo&id=432&index=1
◆ Taipei Times, etc, 2022-9-13: DETERRENT: About 88 percent of respondents said capital punishment helps prevent serious crimes, while nearly 89 percent were dissatisfied with the pace of executions,
86.9 percent of respondents opposed the abolition of capital punishment in Taiwan, 88.8 percent were dissatisfied that the Tsai administration carried out only two executions over the past six years. The poll also showed that 73.6 percent are dissatisfied with public safety in Taiwan, while 25.5 percent are satisfied. taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2022/09/13/2003785231
international panel experts called on Taiwan to end the “cruel and degrading”
practice of capital punishment. The nine-member
group said it was "extremely disappointed" at the failure of Taiwan's government
to address the issue. "Taiwan is already among a
very, very small number of countries in the world that still retain the death
penalty, and the arguments that are time and again, repeated by the government,
are far from convincing," experts
said the "cruel, inhuman and degrading" punishment was in violation of
ICCPR's Article 6 and 7.
◆ Japan Times, 2022-1-4 : Taiwan's claim to be a regional bastion of human rights is being undermined by its retention of capital punishment. Capital punishment remains popular in Taiwan. Despite its frequent use against dissidents during decades of martial law, most polls show Taiwanese still support the death penalty even as the island has become one of the most progressive democracies in Asia. Taiwan president Tsai has called abolishing capital punishment "a difficult issue to deal with" due to the lack of support from the public that would require "a long process, a long time" to change. brief
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South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), Jan. 2022:
Taiwanese death row inmate's case turns focus on use of capital
punishment. Campaigners say Wang Xin-fu,
the island's oldest death row prisoner, was
wrongly convicted for the murder of a policeman in 1990
scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3162028/taiwanese-death-row-inmates-case-turns-focus-use-capital ♣ Japan Times, 2022-1-4: Activists claim there are "obvious flaws" in the conviction of Wang Xin-fu, Taiwan's oldest death row prisoner, from inconsistent testimony, allegations of police torture against a witness, a lack of motive and no fingerprints. ♣ New York Times, 2022-1-21: Taiwanese prosecutors formally charged a suspect with homicide and arson... she "intended to make her boyfriend embarrassed and regretful by setting the fire, which caused major disasters and claimed innocent lives," and she "showed no regrets after committing the crime"... the prosecutors would seek the death penalty. nytimes.com/2022/01/21/world/asia/taiwan-fire-ghost-building-suspect.html |
Death penalty /
Amendments to the Prison Act in January resulted in changes to the
Regulations for the Execution of the Death Penalty in July. The amended
regulations still allowed death sentences for individuals with psychosocial or
intellectual disabilities. Taiwan's
authorities made no progress towards abolition during the year and continued to
carry out executions.
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Amnesty International,
June, 2021, amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/English.pdf
; amnesty.org/en/location/asia-and-the-pacific/east-asia/taiwan/report-taiwan/
Death penalty /
Amendments to the Prison Act in January resulted in changes to the
Regulations for the Execution of the Death Penalty in July. The amended
regulations still allowed death sentences for individuals with psychosocial or
intellectual disabilities. Taiwan's
authorities made no progress towards abolition during the year and continued to
carry out executions.
◆ Amnesty International, 2021-4-21: Egypt, ... India, Oman, Qatar and Taiwan also resumed executions. “The death penalty is an abhorrent punishment and pursuing executions in the middle of a pandemic further highlights its inherent cruelty. (amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/04/death-penalty-2020-despite-covid-19-some-countries-ruthlessly-pursued-death-sentences-and-executions/)
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Taiwan News, 2021-4-22 :
The" Death
Sentences and Executions 2020" report
by Amnesty International lists Taiwan as one of the 18 nations that carried
out the death penalty in 2020. Taiwan's Minister of Justice Tsai
Ching-hsiang (蔡清祥) said on April 21, 2021 that Taiwan remains on track to
abolish capital punishment despite an execution and five death sentences
last year. taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4184012
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◆ UDN, 2021-2-26: According to a survey by National Chung Cheng University, 41.5% poll respondents oppose abolishment of the death penalty, 31.7% disagree but would lik to reconsider the issue of abolishment of the death penalty if supporting measures available. 3.1% said they would like to see the death penalty abolished nationwide. The research found majority of Taiwanese still support heavy punishment for felonies.
udn.com/news/story/7321/5279400
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AFP 4-3-2020:
International and local rights groups urged Taiwan to immediately announce a
moratorium on executions and set a timeline for complete abolition.
"The government said its policy is to gradually abolish the death penalty but it
took opposite action to carry out its second execution ...This
is certainly a regression in human rights.
Jurist 4-3-2020:
The Federation for Human Rights, the Taiwan
Association for Human Rights (TAHR) and Covenants Watch said they cast “serious
doubts on Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s commitment to human rights.”
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◆ National CCU (國立中正大學犯罪研究中心) survey 2020-2-21: 77.4% Taiwanese people disagree abolishing death penalty
― 46.3% of them totally disagree abolishing death penalty, 31.1% of them basically disagree, but would reconsider the issue if complementary measures or supplementary measures provided. The percentage of previous year is 79.6%. 14.2% of the public basically agree abolishing death penalty if complementary measures measures provided. only 2.7% totally agree abolishing death penalty,1.2% decreased compared to that of previous year.www005006.ccu.edu.tw/upload_file/bulletin/15822582689848.pdf
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★ 80% Taiwanese don't believe Taiwan justice, why do Taiwanese support their death-penalty judgments??
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pic.: The sites-group was ranked No.1 "Taiwan death penalty" on Bing at 4-15-2021; No.1 "death penalty in Taiwan" on Bing at 4-3-2020; No.3 at 10-25-2019
Some politicians involving persecutions again
and again may deserve heavy punishment or death penalty
The Hill, 2021-3-28: We (the US) will be
guilty of a similar crime against
humanity if we stand by and watch slavery or murder happen to Taiwanese...
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◆ Death penalty is a hot controversial issue, bur none of Presidential candidates talks about it, even in their official policy speech / Apple Daily, 12-25-2019
pic. left: Right before Presidential election, Taiwan P.M. initiates a topic of death penalty
issue / Apple
Daily, 10-26-2019
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British
Labour Party, MP (member of parliament) etc in Taiwan's
Apple Daily,
10-1-2018
: Taiwan's international status and reputation are in
critical condition or grave danger for
that Taiwan resumed the
implementation of death punishment recently, Taiwan retreats
a big step, don't let media opinions influence this issue.
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At June 5, 2015, The EU ( the European Union)
calls on the authorities in Taiwan to introduce an immediate
moratorium on executions as recommended by international
experts in March 2013 following Taiwan's first human rights
report, and as observed in Taiwan from 2006 to April 2010.
In 2014,
EU expressed regret
over Taiwan's death penalty again following executions (FocusTaiwan
& BBC, 5.1.2014). Taiwan's human rights groups
questioned Taiwan's execution this time with political
purpose (trying to shift the focus on
the signing of the service
trade agreement with red China, and nuclear factory issue).
Taiwanese people don't quite trust judicial
system,
National Chung Cheng university's survey
(head-page of the Liberty Times, 2-23-2016) found:
more than 84% Taiwanese people don't
believe judges, nearly 80% Taiwanese
don't believe
the impartiality of
Taiwan's prosecutors, and
public trust on Taiwan
judiciary system keeps falling down in
the past 8 years. According to
"2012 Taiwan Human Rights
Indicator Survey" (Dec. 4, 2012),
about 53.5 percent of the
respondents gave the protection of judicial human rights a
negative rating, compared with 21.4 percent who rated it
positively (<Taiwan News> Dec. 5, 2012).
Taiwan has executed
death penalty
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