In a rare case, there have been calls on President Lai Ching-te to pardon an eighty-year-old woman who killed her paralyzed son. This occurred apparently due to the burden of care, the woman having cared for him for over 50 years...
The Central Election Commission has approved a referendum on resuming operations for the recently shuttered Ma-anshan nuclear power plant, while rejecting a referendum on capital punishment...
The KMT‘s efforts to push for a referendum at present take place in an unusual manner. Namely, the KMT is not collecting signatures for a national referendum, but instead seeking to bypass this process through the legislature. Consequently, the DPP sought to physically block the KMT in the legislature last week...
The KMT has suggested that it may now call for two national referendums against the DPP. In particular, the KMT will take aim at the idea of reintroducing military courts...
The first execution under the Lai administration took place yesterday. This was the first execution carried out by the Taiwanese government in five years. For the execution to have been carried out, the Minister of Justice and President would have to sign off. The last execution in Taiwan took place under the Tsai administration in April 2020...
As the KMT continues with efforts to freeze the Constitutional Court, views on capital punishments are set to become a political dividing line. That is, the KMT will justify blocking the DPP’s nominations on the basis of capital punishment...
Anger has broken out over the KMT forcing draft amendments to the Public Officials Election and Recall Act through a preliminary review in under three minutes yesterday, in spite of significant contention over the issue...
A long-anticipated ruling on capital punishment from the Constitutional Court yesterday did not result in the abolishment of the death penalty. Instead, the use of the death penalty is restricted to severe cases, such as involving murder...
