EDITORIAL : Slow but steady road to abolition
TAIPEI TIMES, Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009, Page 8
Monday’s forum on the death penalty was eclipsed by a series of cross-strait forums and meetings, an unexpected memorandum of understanding and the continued warnings of mad-cow fearmongers. Unlike cross-strait relations, the economy and even US beef, the debate over capital punishment offers scant political currency for either political camp.
That is both a curse and a blessing for the anti-death penalty movement.