(Repost / Virginia Lin) After the Akihabara Massacre occurred in Japan in 2008, a frequent wave of copycat random killings followed. It was only after the resumption of executions (and legislative amendments) in 2013 that this phenomenon was largely suppressed.
🗣 The Truth the Abolition League Evades
The Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty (TAEDP) always claims that “capital punishment cannot deter crime,” yet they never dare to claim that “abolishing the death penalty can deter crime.”
The TAEDP repeatedly asserts that crime rates in abolitionist countries “have not seen an increase,” yet they evade the fact that crime rates in abolitionist countries are far higher than in countries that maintain the death penalty.
According to EU statistics:
“The recidivism rate of those released on parole from life imprisonment is inversely proportional to their age.” In other words, the younger the perpetrator, the higher the rate of reoffending.
🇹🇼 Do Objective Conditions in the R.O.C. Allow for Abolition?
EU nations, with land areas several times larger than the R.O.C. (Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu), populations that are fractions of ours, and abundant resources, can afford to:
- Build prisons in deserts or on remote islands to permanently isolate high-risk offenders.
- Employ over a dozen staff members to supervise a single prisoner.
- Allow citizens to bear arms for self-defense. (Editor’s Note: EU countries including the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, and Switzerland are all nations where citizens can legally possess firearms under specific regulations.)
Does the Republic of China (R.O.C.) have these same conditions?
When objective conditions clearly do not allow for it, yet people still shout for abolition, whose “human rights” are actually being fulfilled?