Taiwan's oldest death row prisoner, Wang Xin-fu, has been denied a retrial by the Supreme Court. This occurs despite the fact that Wang has consistently maintained his innocence and, in fact, did not commit the murders for which he is on death row...
Three men who served more than nineteen years on death row again have their case in the courts, with a ruling by the Supreme Court for a retrial in August of last year...
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 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...
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...
KMT presidential candidate Hou You-yi has begun to lean into attacks on DPP presidential candidate Lai Ching-te over the death penalty. Hou has called on Lai to clarify what he claims to be an unclear stance on the death penalty...
