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.

World Asia regional rights bastion Taiwan clings to capital punishment. Taiwan’s claim to be a regional bastion of human rights is undermined by its retention of capital punishment.

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 ...

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.

Taiwan's President-elect Tsai Ing-wen, second left, visits a makeshift memorial for a girl who was attacked to death Monday by a knife-wielding assailant outside a subway station in Taipei, Taiwan ...