A Taiwan court decided on Friday to retain capital punishment, but ruled its application should be "limited to special and ...

The ruling reflects a compromise between international pressure for abolition and domestic support for harsh punishment to ...

Taiwan's Constitutional Court issued a ruling on Friday upholding the legality of the death penalty, which is still imposed ...

Taiwan’s Constitutional Court was hearing petitions filed by roughly three dozen prisoners on death row who argued that the ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Human rights groups, lawyers, and abolitionists said the death penalty does not make Taiwan safer ...

“The court emphasized that because the death penalty is the most severe punishment and irreversible in nature, its ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — After months of deliberation, Taiwan’s Constitutional Court on Friday (Sept. 20) determined that the ...

Taiwan’s Constitutional Court is set to rule on whether the archipelago should abolish the death penalty, a key test of its ...

Ahead of a court ruling scheduled for Friday on whether capital punishment is constitutional, a new poll finds that 80% of ...

Campaigners against the death penalty have long argued that the practice, carried out by shooting an inmate in the heart from ...

Taiwan’s Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that the death penalty should be applied only to the most grievous offenses, a ...

Taiwan's Constitutional Court has upheld the legality of the death penalty but placed new restrictions on its application.