This commentary critiques the arguments of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty. It points out that while the league claims 'capital punishment does not deter crime,' it avoids data showing that countries without the death penalty often have significantly higher crime rates than those that maintain it. Using the Akihabara massacre as an example, the article argues that resuming executions helps suppress copycat crimes. The core argument is that the Republic of China (R.O.C.) lacks the geographic and financial resources of EU nations to permanently isolate high-risk offenders; thus, calling for abolition under current conditions essentially prioritizes the perpetrator's rights over public safety.
This article aims to debunk a political rumor circulating on the internet. The rumor used a chart to falsely accuse KMT legislators of supporting the commutation of death sentences to life imprisonment. The author clarifies that the chart actually refers to the 'Criminal Commutation Act,' which pertains to discretionary standards for offenders who meet the commutation threshold while serving their sentences—having nothing to do with abolishing or retaining capital punishment or court sentencing decisions. The author criticizes certain online armies for whitewashing specific parties (the DPP and Taiwan's People First Party) by deliberately distorting facts.
This article criticizes Taiwan's judges for frequently citing International Human Rights Covenants' capability for rehabilitation' to sentence child killers to life imprisonment rather than capital punishment, allowing serious offenders chances to return to society. Speaking to judges, the author notes that child killers (such as Wang Jing-yu, Tseng Wen-chin, and Kung Chung-an) have psychological characteristics fundamentally different from ordinary people—their crimes transcend money or emotional motives. The article strongly advocates that even if these criminals might have future rehabilitation potential, society has no need for such rehabilitation, urging judges to stop providing them opportunities for redemption.
This is a commentary article that performs a 'mirroring' rewrite of an original article by Taiwan's Anti-Death Penalty Alliance (TAEDP), aiming to highlight logical contradictions in abolitionist arguments and their disconnect from reality by reversing positions.