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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 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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編按:1996年發生空軍作戰司令部謝姓女童遭姦殺命案,江國慶被軍法審判死刑,於1997年8月13日執行;監察院於2010年5月12日公佈調查報告指出江國慶遭誤判錯殺;檢警專案小組重新鑑定當年軍方扣案證物,並於2011年1月28日逮補許榮洲,台北地檢署以許嫌殺人罪嫌重大,且有逃亡之虞,漏夜向法院聲請羈押獲准。相關新聞整理如下:

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任內發生執行死刑 李篤遺憾

2011-01-10中國時報【羅融/側記】

歐盟雖然反對台灣執行死刑,但仍給台免簽待遇,顯見歐盟已將兩者脫鉤處理。沒想到專訪剛開始,李篤的第一句話便是:「你沒有問跟死刑有關的問題吧!」他看似不願談,稍後又在記者提問時有問必答,顯見死刑議題正是李篤卸任前最在意的問題。

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第65屆聯合國大會 65th United Nations General Assembly
再次通過/確認「暫停使用死刑(Moratorium on the use of the death penalty)」決議


2010/12/22 TAEDP新聞稿

聯合國大會曾經於第62屆和63屆聯合國大會(UNGA)通過全世界暫停死刑執行的決議。(UNGA 62/149和63/168號決議)。今年第65屆UNGA,於12/21在紐約召開的會議上,再次投票通過第三份全球暫停使用死刑的決議(Resolution)。世界反死刑聯盟(WCADP)也發表新聞稿表示歡迎,WCADP認為這個決議讓「全球廢除死刑的陣營更穩固」(The Abolitionist Front Gets Stronger)。

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