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    Taiwan prosecutors seeking death penalty for suspect in schoolgirl stabbing

    Prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty for Kung Chung-an, whom they have indicted for the murder of an 8-year-old girl.

    The Shilin District Prosecutors Office said Kung should be sentenced to death to improve Taiwan's social atmosphere and to protect law and order. They are also requesting the lifetime deprivation of his civil rights.

    Prosecutors said the method with which Kung killed the girl was so fierce that he has caused great suffering to the victim's family and society as a whole.

    On May 8, Kung allegedly assaulted an 8-year-old girl surnamed Liu after jumping a wall into the Wenhua Elementary School in Beitou District of Taipei City. The girl suffered a fatal knife injury to her neck.

    Kung had said the reason he intruded into his alma mater to commit the crime was because he suffered from workplace pressures and auditory hallucinations.

    In June, Kung was sent to receive several psychiatric examinations at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital Department of Psychiatry.

    The hospital has found that Kung did not have a mental disturbance or defect when allegedly committing the crime, according to the authorities.

    http://news.asiaone.com/news/crime/t....QNPHb1Hu.dpuf

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    Murder of 4-year-old girl stirs death penalty debate

    Taipei (CNA) - The brutal beheading of a 4-year-old girl in an apparent random attack in Taipei on Monday has renewed debate over the death penalty, which is still carried out in Taiwan, with advocates asking opponents if they still favored abolishing it.

    A 33-year-old man has been detained in connection with the gruesome killing of the girl as she and her mother were on their way to a subway station in Neihu District in northern Taipei late Monday morning.

    The suspect grabbed the child from behind and decapitated her with a cleaver. The girl died on the spot, according to police.

    The tragedy sparked a heated debate in the Internet community, with Lin Hsin-yi (林欣怡), the executive director of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, saying that she was "very, very, very sad" about the tragedy on a Facebook post.

    She wrote that she really wanted to find a solution on how to stop such incidents.

    Some netizens argued, however, that people found guilty of "felony murder" should be directly executed and others said those found guilty of killing others should pay for what they have done.

    Kuomintang Legislator Wang Yu-min (王育敏) said the attack was simply unacceptable, and she called for public support for her proposal that would stipulate automatic death penalties, or life sentences under specific circumstances, for people who murder children under the age of 12.

    Asked whether the incident would affect his support for abolishing the death penalty, New Power Party Legislator Freddy Lim (林昶佐) said he has pushed for reforms of the country's penal system, which includes protecting the rights of children and the families of victims.

    Lin, who has served as the head of Amnesty International's Taiwan branch, said it was time for Taiwan to make improvements in these areas to avoid the repetition of similar incidents in the future.

    The newly elected chairwoman of the KMT, Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱), questioned those opposed to capital punishment, asking "Are you still in favor of abolishing the death penalty?" while expressing her support for the bill proposed by Wang.

    President-elect Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) expressed her sadness over the brutal killing through Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesman Wang Min-sheng (王閔生).

    Tsai said the country should stem these types of tragic crimes by strengthening education, improving the economy and mental health for individuals and striving to maintain social order, according to Wang.

    Monday's incident was the third case of a random child murder in Taiwan in the last five years.

    In December 2012, a 29-year-old unemployed man named Tseng Wen-chin (曾文欽) murdered a 10-year-old boy in Tainan and allegedly said he killed him because he wanted to be imprisoned. Tseng was given a life sentence by the Tainan District Court the next year.

    Tseng also reportedly suggested that he would not receive a death sentence because he only killed one person, a comment that drew a public outcry and sparked a debate over the death penalty at that time.

    In June 2015, an 8-year-old girl died of multiple organ failure after she had her throat slit by 29-year-old Kung Chung-an (龔重安), who claimed to be looking for a random target at her school in Beitou District in Taipei.

    The killer said he murdered the girl because prisoners get better food than he was getting in his daily life. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the case also reinforced support for the death penalty and led people to question those who oppose it.

    http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201603280029.aspx
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Supreme Court to rule on MRT killer's fate

    TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Supreme Court summoned MRT killer Cheng Chieh (鄭捷), who had been sentenced to death for brutally murdering four people and injuring more than 20 people in an MRT stabbing spree, for a public hearing on Thursday.

    It would be the first case the Supreme Court has ever summoned a death row inmate for a hearing.

    Cheng's attorney, Lin Chun-hung (林俊宏), said he wishes for judges to halt the execution order, making the argument that the death penalty is not necessarily constitutional.

    During his final statement, Cheng apologized to the family members of the victims and thanked the judge for acknowledging his lawyer's request for him to make an appeal to the Supreme Court.

    "It doesn't matter for me, since I might be shot dead within a few months, but for our society, I hope (the legal system) can improve," said Cheng.

    Cheng said the Ministry of Justice's Agency of Corrections (矯正署) might as well change its name to "Agency of Punishment," saying the way it treats convicts is "without respect of dignity," without emotional release, and saying people are corrected into "trash in human form."

    A large crowd of reporters gathered in front of the Supreme Court in the morning, but the court only allowed 52 members of the public and 12 reporters to sit inside. The remaining reporters were directed to another room to watch the live broadcast.

    Fifty policemen were deployed to stand guard around the court, believed to be a response to heightened tension after the recent incident in Neihu (內湖), when a child was beheaded.

    On May 21, 2014, Cheng, at the time a 21-year-old college student, randomly attacked passengers with a 30-centimeter-long knife on the Taipei MRT system from Longshan Temple Station to Jiangzicui Station, a trip that takes the longest time in the entire Taipei Metro System. The attack resulted in four dead and 22 injured.

    Cheng was sentenced to death and the deprivation of his civil rights for life, by both the New Taipei District Court and the Taiwan High Court.

    http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/n...reme-Court.htm
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Thousands Rally in Taiwan to Support Death Penalty

    Thousands attended a rally in Taipei yesterday to support for the continued use of the death penalty. The demonstration comes as the recent horrific beheading of a four-year-old girl in Taipei has ignited debate over capital punishment.

    Taiwan reinstated capital punishment in 2010 after a five-year moratorium. Since then, 32 executions have been carried out, according to the Death Penalty Worldwide.

    Some lawmakers have been arguing that Taiwan needs to abolish the death penalty, pointing to European countries as an example. The discussion will come to a head this week as the Legislative Yuan review a proposal that would impose the death penalty on anyone convicted of murdering a child under the age of 12.

    The White Rose Social Care Association organized yesterday's event to urge the government to heed public opinion.

    According to the association, 5,000 people showed up at the start of the rally, including Chen Pei-chi and her two young sons.

    "Taiwan is not safe, so death sentences are needed to deter crimes and they should be carried out," said Chen. "I hope this will make our society safer for all children."

    Another supporter, Wu Chiu-mei, said "I am really sad and angry that these random murders of children keep happening. All child-killers should be sentenced to death for hurting defenseless children."

    This is not the first time the public reacted angrily to the murder of a child. In December 2012, a 10-year-old boy was killed in Tainan and the man convicted of the crime sparked outrage when he made comments about receiving free room and board in prison. Six executions were carried out later that month.

    In June 2015, there were six more executions following the murder of an 8-year-old girl in Taipei. Amnesty International condemned the actions, saying that "the decision to carry out the executions reeks of political calculations by a government attempting to gain points by quelling public anger."

    According to a survey by Taiwan's National Chung Cheng University, 83.3 percent of Taiwanese citizens are against abolishing the death penalty.

    http://www.chinatopix.com/articles/8...th-penalty.htm
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Taiwan executes subway killer

    "Death was the only way to show publicly that justice had been served and to relieve the sorrow and pain of victims' families," says deputy justice minister Cheng Ming-tang.

    TAIPEI: Taiwan on Tuesday (May 10) executed a former college student who killed four people in a random stabbing spree on a subway two years ago, in an attack which horrified the generally peaceful island.

    Cheng Chieh, 23, was anaesthetized then shot three times by a firing squad at a jail outside Taipei a little before 9:00 pm (1300 GMT), deputy justice minister Chen Ming-tang told reporters.

    "Death was the only way to show publicly that justice had been served and to relieve the sorrow and pain of victims' families," he said.

    Cheng was sentenced to death last year for killing four people and injuring another 22, in the first fatal attack on the capital's subway system since it launched in 1996.

    His execution surprised many, however, as it came less than three weeks after the supreme court upheld the death sentence despite last-ditch efforts by rights groups.

    Among the victims of the attack in May 2014 was a man named Hsieh Ching-yun. His mother said she was "glad" Cheng had been executed.

    "Losing my son is a pain that will last forever, for the rest of my life," she told the TVBS cable news network.

    Prosecutors sought the death penalty for Cheng, saying psychological evaluations showed that he was not suffering from any mental disorder when he committed the crime.

    Cheng, who pleaded guilty to the charges, was expelled by his university after the attack and was described by prosecutors as "anti-society, narcissistic, immature and pessimistic".

    Local media said he had been obsessed with gory online games and had written horror stories.

    Cheng's parents had asked for him to be sentenced to death, calling their son's actions "unforgivable".

    The incident shocked Taiwan, otherwise proud of its low levels of violent crime, and resulted in several minor injuries as edgy commuters fled trains over false alarms in the following week.

    There are currently 42 prisoners on death row in Taiwan, all of whom will face a firing squad when they are executed.

    http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/...y/2773540.html
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Court hands out record settlement

    By Jason Pan
    Taipei Times

    The Taichung branch of Taiwan High Court yesterday awarded former death row inmate Cheng Hsing-tse (鄭性澤), 50, NT$17,288 million (US$562,925) in compensation after he was wrongfully convicted of killing a police officer and spent more than a decade in prison.

    “Cheng has lost a vital part of his adult life and was stripped of personal liberties while in prison,” the court said in its ruling.

    “The case was also a burden to his family... While on death row, Cheng faced fear and pain from the constant threat of a judicial order to administer his execution. He had to endure much suffering during his incarceration,” it said.

    Cheng was with friends at a karaoke bar in Taichung in January 2002, when a dispute broke out and someone fired a shot into the ceiling.

    Taichung police arrived and there was an exchange of gunfire, resulting in the death of Cheng’s friend Lo Wu-hsiung (羅武雄) and police officer Su Hsien-pi (蘇憲丕).

    As Cheng was found holding a handgun, investigators said he had fired the shot that killed Su.
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    heng’s case went through seven trials and eight retrials, including the Supreme Court’s 2006 decision to uphold the death sentence.

    After spending 14 years in prison, prosecutors in March 2016 applied to the Taiwan High Court for another retrial after new evidence emerged.

    Cheng was acquitted in October last year.

    In yesterday’s ruling, the judges said that, from his arrest in 2002, Cheng had spent 5,233 days in prison.

    Cheng served two years for illegal firearm charges. Of the other charges against him, 911 days could be commuted to a fine, so he had been wrongfully imprisoned for 4,322 days, the judges said.

    He was awarded NT$4,000 for each of the 4,322 days, totaling NT$17.288 million — the third-highest compensation for wrongful conviction in the nation’s history.

    http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiw.../31/2003699527

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    President Tsai's administration carries out first death penalty

    By Hsiao Po-wen and Flor Wang
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    Taipei - A death row inmate was executed Friday for killing his ex-wife and daughter in 2014 -- the first execution since President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) took office on May 20, 2016.

    The man, identified as Lee Hung-chi (李宏基), was executed in Kaohsiung after Minister of Justice Tsai Ching-hsiang (蔡清祥), who was sworn into office July 16, signed the order to carry out the execution Thursday.

    According to the Ministry of Justice, Lee was executed because he murdered his ex-wife in a public place surrounded by witnesses and consistently displayed no remorse.

    On Dec. 28, 2016, Lee was convicted by the Supreme Court of killing his ex-wife and daughter.

    In April 2014, Lee went to the kingdergarten attended by his two daughters and tried to kidnap them. He was stopped by his ex-wife whom he stabbed to death outside the school after a quarrel.

    Lee fled with one of his daughters and drove to Jianshih township in Hsinchu County, where he attempted to commit suicide and kill his daughter by burning charcoal in his car.

    The two were later discovered by local police who rushed them to hospital. Lee survived the suicide attempt but his daughter did not.

    The last execution carried out in Taiwan was on May 10, 2016, in which spree killer Cheng Jie (鄭捷) was executed for killing four and injuring 24 on a Taipei metro train in 2014.

    Currently, 42 inmates remain on death row in Taiwan.

    http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201808310021.aspx

    This article has more details on the execution for those curious.

    Kaohsiung prison executes murderer

    By Jason Pan and Chang Wen-chuan

    Taipei Times

    Convicted murderer Lee Hung-chi (李宏基), who killed his ex-wife and their six-year-old daughter, was yesterday afternoon executed by shooting in Kaohsiung.

    It was the first execution sanctioned by Minister of Justice Tsai Ching-hsiang (蔡清祥) — 46 days since he took office on July 16 — and the first under the administration of President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) since she assumed the presidency on May 20, 2016.

    Officials said 39-year-old Lee was informed of the Ministry of Justice’s approval to carry out the order earlier in the day before he was taken to the execution ground at Kaohsiung Second Prison, where he was shot in the heart from behind at 3:37pm.

    In addition to the executioner, the process was watched by prosecutors, a coroner, the prison warden and security guards, Deputy Minister of Justice Chen Ming-tang (陳明堂) said in Taipei.

    “Afterward, the body was examined and the coroner made the official announcement certifying Lee’s death at 4:01pm,” Chen said.

    Lee and his ex-wife, surnamed Chen (陳), had two daughters. She had filed for a restraining order following domestic violence incidents and later filed for divorce, gaining custody of their two daughters.

    On April 16, 2014, Lee waited for his ex-wife at the kindergarten their daughters attended, where he stabbed her to death with a kitchen knife before taking his eldest daughter and driving to the mountains in Hsinchu County.

    Lee fed his daughter sleeping pills and then tried to commit suicide by burning charcoal in the car.

    They were found unconscious the next day and rushed to a local hospital. Despite the efforts of medical personnel, his daughter died one month later.

    Judges rejected an appeal and handed Lee the death sentence, citing his lack of remorse and his vowing in court to complete “unfinished business” and to take revenge on his ex-wife’s family if he were to get out of prison.

    Tsai said the ministry assessed the case with the highest prudence and applied the strictest criteria in reviewing and approving the execution warrant.

    According to prison officials, when asked for his last words, Lee at first said he did not have any, but later said he felt sorry for his family.

    Lee seemed ready to accept his fate and did not eat much of his last meal before requesting to smoke one last cigarette, prison officials said, adding that he walked to the execution ground without the assistance of security personnel.

    Members of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty held a protest following news of Lee’s execution, saying that it was a step backward for human rights in Taiwan.

    Other human rights advocates asked if the government was trying to show the public that it was carrying out justice in the run-up to the Nov. 24 nine-in-one elections, saying that no nation should use the death penalty to score political points.

    Carrying out executions would not solve society’s problems, they added.

    http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/fron.../01/2003699571
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    Out of all the people that they picked for execution it was the newest person.

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    Taiwan executes death row inmate convicted in six deaths

    A death row inmate was executed Wednesday in Taiwan, less than a year after he was convicted of killing six people by setting fire to his home.

    Minister of Justice Tsai Ching-hsiang (蔡清祥) said he signed the order, and the death sentence was carried out Wednesday afternoon in New Taipei.

    The 53-year-old inmate Weng Jen-hsien (翁仁賢) was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court on July 10, 2019 after he was convicted in the deaths of his parents, their caregiver, his niece and nephew, and the latter's wife.

    According to the court, Weng set fire to his home in Taoyuan City's Longtan District on Feb. 7, 2016 after a family feud, and the six died in the blaze, while four other relatives sustained injuries.

    Currently, there are 39 inmates on death row in Taiwan, and the last execution before Weng's was on Aug. 31, 2018.

    It was Taiwan's second execution of a prisoner since President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) of the Democratic Progressive Party took office in 2016.

    Prior to that, in the eight years of the previous administration led by then President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) of the Kuomintang, 33 death row inmates were executed.

    https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202004010020

    February 21, 2019

    Court upholds death penalty for arsonist

    By Jason Pan
    The Taipei Times

    The Taiwan High Court yesterday upheld convicted arsonist Weng Jen-hsien’s (翁仁賢) death sentence.

    Weng, 53, had twice previously been found guilty of killing six people, including his parents and three relatives.

    Weng had shown no remorse for his crime and there was no likelihood of rehabilitation, the court said.

    Weng was convicted of killing direct family members and relatives, which is punishable by death or life imprisonment under the Criminal Code.

    Weng purchased 20 liters of gasoline, which he placed into bottles and plastic containers, and deliberately waited for a day until Lunar New Year’s Eve on Feb. 7, 2016, when the victims had scheduled a family gathering, an investigation found.

    Weng ran into the house, doused his family members with gasoline and set them alight, it found.

    Weng killed his parents, two cousins, a cousin’s wife and his parents’ caregiver. Five other relatives sustained burns.

    The High Court ruling reaffirmed the previous two rulings, which said that Weng had planned the murder — an extremely vicious crime — had no regard for human life and was devoid of any moral values.

    Throughout the investigation and court proceedings, Weng did not show any remorse and his crime had affected family members and relatives, the court said, adding that he remains a danger to his family.

    Weng had said that he intended to kill all of his family, because he believed that, being the youngest of the seven siblings, his parents had neglected him, and that since childhood he had to do most of the work on the farm the family owned in Taoyuan’s Longtan District (龍潭).

    However, according to other testimony, Weng had a malicious nature and his siblings had their share of farm labor.

    When Weng’s elder brother was called as a witness, Weng said: “My family members deserve no respect, they are worse than animals … If I could reincarnate 10 times, I would kill you 10 more times.”

    https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/tai.../21/2003710131
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    What is going on with the surge in worldwide executions were seeing this year?

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