In Taiwan, capital punishment has been imposed for a wide variety of crimes, such as murder, violent robbery with homicide, kidnapping and drug trafficking.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited Taiwan as recently as 2018 to lobby against capital punishment. There have been only two executions since the ruling Democratic Progressive Party took ...

The number of US states that retain capital punishment has also fallen — from 38 at the turn of the century to 27 now — and in those that maintain the death penalty, executions have diminished in ...

Taiwan's debate over capital punishment. Beijing considers self-ruled Taiwan to be Chinese territory, and President Xi Jinping has made "reuniting" the democratic island with mainland China a long ...

Taiwan opposition calls vote on capital punishment, martial law. 18 March 2025 17 March 2025 by Agencia EFE. Taipei, Mar 17 (EFE).- Taiwan’s main opposition party, the Kuomintang, ...

Taiwan’s top court on September 20, 2024 ruled that the death penalty was constitutional with greater protections, Human Rights Watch said today.

Taiwan has carried out its first execution in nearly five years, drawing criticism from rights groups which said the use of capital punishment was a "huge setback" for the island's human rights.

Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned execution of an individual for committing a specific crime. Since 1976, more than 85 nations have abolished the death penalty ...

A Taiwan court decided on Sept. 20 to retain capital punishment, but ruled its application should be "limited to special and exceptional circumstances." Democratic Taiwan has carried out 35 executions ...

Taiwan carried out its first execution in five years late on Thursday, upsetting both rights groups and the European Union which called on the government to maintain its de facto moratorium on the ...

Taiwan will simulate a Chinese blockade and invasion of the democratic island in its annual military and civil defence drills ...

E-Ling Chiu, Amnesty International Taiwan’s director, said the execution was a “huge setback for human rights in Taiwan”. “This execution is a shocking and cruel development.