Exposed: What the Abolition League Won’t Tell You—Does Unconditional Abolition Only Protect the 'Human Rights of Perpetrators'?

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.

2016年5月13日

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.

2015年5月30日