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. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “have an exception. If there is a serious crime and the [convicts] are sentenced to death according to a law that was in place when they committed the crime. The two human rights laws do not impose an absolute ban on the death penalty," Wu Chen-huan said.