This is an article debunking a rumor and seeking the truth. Because of the case involving the Little Light Bulb victim, the controversy over abolishing capital punishment resurfaced, pushing both the DPP led by Tsai Ing-wen and the Taiwan People First Party into the spotlight, as they have always advocated capital punishment abolition as a universal human right value.
However, since the incident developed, the undersigned has discovered on Facebook and LINE groups that green camp netizens have specially designed the chart below to engage in debates online, claiming the KMT is the culprit.
How twisted must these commentators’ minds be to say such things? Do they have any sense of propriety or shame?
This chart actually refers to the “Criminal Commutation Act”—the discretionary standardization for an offender serving their sentence who meets the commutation threshold. This chart’s content has absolutely nothing to do with whether the capital punishment system should be abolished or retained, nor does it have any connection to the court’s sentencing decisions regarding criminal conduct.
Frankly, what the undersigned most dislikes is the common folk being brainwashed by online armies without realizing it (a private researcher’s bias).
If someone can so arbitrarily distort the truth, I really don’t know what purpose such people serve in this world. To be blunt, such people are no different from murderers living in their imaginary worlds—except murderers actually commit murder, while these online armies are merely cowardly people hiding behind computer screens while harboring the same murderous intent as actual murderers.