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Wrongful Execution Reopens Death Penalty Debate 
By Dennis Engbarth

TAIPEI, Feb 5, 2011 (IPS) - Revelations that an Air Force private had apparently been wrongfully executed 15 years ago for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl have reopened the debate over Taiwan’s retention of the death penalty.

Taipei District and Taichung District prosecutors announced Jan. 28 that after a new investigation into the case, another former Air Force enlisted man had confessed to the crime. 

The announcement prompted President Ma Ying-jeou to apologise to the mother of then 21-year-old Air Force private Chiang Kuo-ching, who was convicted for the crime and executed by gunshot in 1997. Ma also promised "to use the swiftest legal procedure" to clear Chiang's name and make reparations. 

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Taiwan 'child rapist' cleared 14 years after his execution
Daniel Bardsley (Foreign Correspondent)
Last Updated: Feb 2, 2011

BEIJING // An admission by the Taiwanese government that a young air force private was wrongly executed for murder nearly 14 years ago has led to renewed calls by human-rights groups for the island to abolish the death penalty.
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Taiwan urged to scrap death penalty after wrongful execution
Jan 31, 2011, 13:25 GMT
 
Taipei - Taiwan was urged on Monday to scrap the death penalty, after the government admitted that a soldier was wrongly executed for killing a girl 15 years ago.
 
'This case of Chiang Ching-kuo proves again there is a risk to carrying out the death penalty, because once a person is wrongly executed, the mistake cannot be corrected,' Lin Hsin-yi, executive director of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, told the German Press Agency dpa.
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Taiwan's President apologizes over wrongful execution
 
January 31, 2011: Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and the Ministry of National Defense (MND) formally apologised to the family of former air force private Chiang Kuo-ching.
 
Kuo-ching was wrongful executed for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in the R.O.C. Air Force Command Headquarters compound on RenAi Road in Taipei in September 1996.
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Doubts raised over soldier’s execution

JUSTICE?:Fifteen years after Chiang Kuo-ching’s execution for a child’s murder, DNA evidence has led to the detention of a man who confessed to the murder at the time
 
By Rich Chang, Ko Shu-ling and Shih Hsiu-chuan  /  Staff Reporters
Sun, Jan 30, 2011

A soldier who was executed by the military for the murder and rape of a five-year-old girl 15 years ago might have been wrongfully convicted, as the Taipei District Court on Friday detained a man suspected of committing the crime.
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日新任法務大臣反對死刑

央廣 2011/01/14 張子清


日本首相菅直人14日改組內閣後,於當天傍晚正式啟動。新任法務大臣江田五月(Satsuk Eda)在接任新職後,向外界公開表示,他反對死刑,這使得日本疾呼廢除死刑的人權運動團體,感到廢除死刑有望。

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伊利諾州參議會通過廢止死刑 

時間:2011/1/12 11:02

撰稿‧編輯:楊明娟   新聞引據: 採訪、法新社

美國伊利諾州參議會11日投票通過廢止該州的死刑,可望為近十年來有關死刑存廢的爭議,劃下句點。

伊州眾議會已經在6日通過廢止死刑的這項議案。參議會11日則是以32票對25票,跟進通過。案子將送請民主黨籍的州長昆恩(Pat Quinn)批准簽署。

目前還無法確知昆恩會不會簽署這項法案。昆恩曾表示,他個人雖然支持死刑制度,但如果議會通過廢止,他任內不會再恢復死刑。

伊利諾州前州長萊恩(George Ryan),在2000年1月宣佈暫時停止死刑執行後,伊州就掀起有關廢止死刑的爭議。在歷經11年的爭論後,終於獲得州參、眾議會的通過。

目前伊利諾州仍然有15名死刑犯等待執行。

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2011/01/08 

Taipei, Jan. 8 (CNA) Vice President Vincent Siew said Saturday that a human rights committee under the Presidential Office will set up an agency specifically to report on the human rights situation throughout the country.
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廢除死刑的陣線更加穩固

立即發布:21/12/2010
世界反死刑聯盟新聞稿

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聯合國大會(UNGA)通過第三份呼籲全球暫停執行死刑的決議文;對此,世界反死刑聯盟表示歡迎。

今年更多國家共同提案支持,再次確認了2007年12月18日第62/149號決議文和2008年12月18日第63/168號決議文「暫停使用死刑」以及確認全球邁向廢除死刑的趨勢

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台灣|蘇案正義遲遲未到

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國際特赦組織公開聲明
AI Index: ASA 38/005/2010
2010年12月10日

針對台灣最高法院刻正審理檢方就蘇建和、劉秉郎、莊林勳等三人(簡稱「蘇案」)無罪上訴一案,國際特赦組織敦促台灣當局正視此案司法程序中的各項瑕疵,包括刑求問題,並以廢除死刑為目標,立即暫停執行死刑。

國際特赦組織非常關切這宗延宕多時的死刑案件。蘇案歷經台灣各級法院反覆審訊已近二十年,而其基礎主要是三位被告疑遭強迫的「自白」。

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