Human rights groups marched to the Presidential Office last Wednesday, calling for death row inmate Chiou Ho-shun to be pardoned by President Tsai Ing-wen. An exhibition about the case is also currently running in Taichung at the Judicial Reform Foundation’s Taichung office, which Tsai has been invited to visit....
Human rights groups and civil society groups opposed to the death penalty have sought to call attention to the Chiou Ho-shun case in past weeks. Chiou has served a total of 31 years behind bars for two murder cases that took place in 1987 and 1988, having been on death row since 1989...