Taiwan
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- semi-presidential republic
- CONSTITUTION
- December 25, 1947, amended several times, last in 2005
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- is based on civil law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, Legislative Yuan
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Judicial Yuan, with judges appointed by the President for nine years with the consent of the National Assembly
RELIGIONS
Confucian and Buddhist majorities; Protestant and Catholic minorities
From the country
- MAY 13, 2011TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN DEFENDS EXECUTIONS OF DEATH-ROW INMATES ACCORDING TO LAW
the abolition of death penalty is Taiwan's ultimate goal and can only be realised after it receives the support of a majority of local people, Vice Minister of Justice Chen Shou-huang said.
MAY 12, 2011TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: DEATH SENTENCE HANDED OUT IN 23-YEAR-OLD MURDER CASE
at the 12th retrial result announcement for the 1987 kidnap-murder case of nine-year
MAY 3, 2011TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: DEATH PENALTY REMOVED FROM MILITARY LAW
Taiwan moved a step closer toward the reduced use of the death penalty as the Legislative
- MARCH 25, 2011TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN: JUSTICE MINISTRY: HUMAN RIGHTS ACCORDS DO NOT BAN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
the Taiwanese justice ministry said the two human rights accords that Taiwan signed do not conflict with capital punishment.
- MARCH 24, 2011TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN: MA: SERIOUS OFFENDERS PUT TO DEATH IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW
"Our current policy is to try and reduce the number of convicts put to death under the act governing the control and prohibition of gun, cannon, munitions and knife and the military service ...
- MARCH 10, 2011TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN TO DROP DEATH PENALTY FOR SOME CRIMES AMID GLOBAL CRITICISM
Taiwan's cabinet approved revisions of four laws to drop the death penalty for some crimes, including
- MARCH 9, 2011TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN: MINISTER VOWS TO UPHOLD JUDICIAL SOVEREIGNTY
Taiwan's Justice Minister pledged that he will not suspend the implementation of the
- MARCH 5, 2011TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
President Ma Ying-jeou defended the Ministry of Justice’s...
President Ma Ying-jeou defended the Ministry of Justice’s...
MARCH 5, 2011TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: DOCTORS TRANSPLANT ORGANS TAKEN FROM EXECUTED PRISONERS
Doctors at southern Taiwan's Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (KCGMH) conducted liver transplant surgeries after receiving the bodies of two inmates executed, local media reported.
- MARCH 4, 2011TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN: FIVE DEATH-ROW CONVICTS EXECUTED
Five convicts on death row were executed in Taiwan, the Ministry of Justice said in a statement
- FEBRUARY 10, 2011TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN: TOP COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH
Chen Ruei-chin was sentenced to death by the Taiwanese supreme court for the death of three adults and three children from 1983 to 2003, two of whom were his former wives and three were children born to his first wife.
JANUARY 31, 2011TaiwanDEATH PENALTYTAIWAN: MA APOLOGISES TO THE PUBLIC OVER WRONGFUL EXECUTION
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and the Ministry of National Defense (MND) formally