Lee Yihsiung a Taiwan drug trafficker was executed...
Lee Yihsiung a Taiwan drug trafficker was executed at the Taipei Prison, five years after he was arrested and escorted back to Taiwan from Thailand
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Lee Yihsiung a Taiwan drug trafficker was executed at the Taipei Prison, five years after he was arrested and escorted back to Taiwan from Thailand. Lee Yi-hsiung was the first drug trafficker who was put to death under the execution order signed by Minister of Justice Chen Ting-nan after Chen announced on May 20th the planned policy of scrapping the death penalty within three years.
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- (Sources: BBC Monitoring International Reports, Central News Agency, 09/06/2001)
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