A representative of the London-based human rights organization Amnesty International hopes that Taiwan can hold a wide - ranging public debate on the question of the abolishment of the death sentence, but added that Taiwan's international image would be harmed by a resumption of executions.
North Carolina man exonerated after 17 years Gregory Taylor was convicted in 1993 of killing a prostitute. A state innocence panel unanimously rules that he didn't. It is the first exoneration by the only such agency in the U.S.