TAIWAN: LEGALITY OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT UPHELD

the Justices of the Taiwanese Constitutional Court rejected a petition aimed at halting plans to execute the 40 inmates that remain on death row. “There is no violation of the Constitution in the convictions,” the Constitutional Court said in a statement. “Execution of the death row prisoners does not violate the two United Nations covenants that Taiwan has signed,” the court said, in a reference to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.