What We Need Is More Than Just the Money of Bad People: Looking at Taiwan's Death Penalty System and the Absurdity of the TAEDP from the Eight-Year-Old Girl Throat-Slitting Case

The article criticizes the tendency of Taiwanese courts to give light sentences and uses the case of an eight-year-old girl having her throat slit to lash out at the position of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP). The author argues that 'bad people are not people' and their treatment should not be compared with that of good people; he also believes the TAEDP is using victims to gain benefits for themselves. The author refutes the 'death penalty is useless' and 'cannot heal the pain' arguments, emphasizing that the death penalty is a system, a 'self-choice' of the criminal, and can bring a minimum degree of psychological compensation to the victim's family. It concludes by describing the TAEDP's philosophy with 'Chunibyo' (8th-grade syndrome), believing it leads to criminals becoming more unscrupulous.