Taiwan freed three men who had been on death row for...

Taiwan freed three men who had been on death row for more than a decade in a brutal robbery-murder case that had put the island's human rights record in the spotlight.
Citing insufficient evidence, Taiwan's high court overturned the death sentences for Su Chien-ho, Liu Ping-lang and Chuang Lin-hsun, who were in their early 20s when they were convicted of the robbery and murder of a Taiwan couple in 1991. The couple was stabbed 79 times.
"I am relaxed, but I am not happy. What I have been through is beyond the imagination of ordinary people," Su told reporters after his release.
Members from the victim's family said they regretted the ruling, but did not say whether they would appeal.
Local and international human rights groups had launched a series of campaigns to save the trio, who said they were forced by the police to confess and that all evidence pointing to their involvement was circumstantial.
The Taipei-based Chinese Association for Human Rights hailed the verdict.
"For the death-row inmates and their families, it is belated justice. But it sets a milestone in judicial reforms," the association said in a statement.
Taiwan's Justice Minister Chen Ding-nan has said he planned to abolish the death sentence before his term ends in 2004 in response to repeated appeals by international human rights groups.