How Taiwan Debates the Death Penalty and its Abolition
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In April 2024, the Taiwan Constitutional Court held a hearing on whether the death penalty violates constitutional guarantees of human rights. On 20 September it ruled to uphold the death penalty, with some new safeguards around its use. While a coalition of abolitionist non-government organisations (NGOs) and research institutes led by the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP) have spent two decades advocating the abolition of the death penalty, poll after poll revealed strong public...
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