the Taiwan High Court's Taichung branch upheld the Taichung District Court's death sentence

the Taiwan High Court's Taichung branch upheld the Taichung District Court's death sentence for Chen Chin-huo and his shop assistant Kwang Teh-chiang. The two allegedly raped, murdered and chopped up insurance agent Shih Chin-chi on December 7, 2003, when Shih visited Chen's motorcycle shop. Chen Chin-huo also confessed that he ate part of Shih's body. 
"These two men never expressed regret for what they have done and never directly told investigators about the details of the case," said Chen Chi-kang, spokesman for the high court's Taichung branch.
Chen and Kwang were allowed to appeal, although both have said that they would not.
In the meantime, prosecutors said that they would appeal on the victim's behalf for the maximum possible sentence because "the death penalty is not good enough for these two sick men." Both men had already been convicted on 10 counts, each of which carries a death sentence. On April 21, 2004, a substantial part of Shih's body was discovered in the water tank of Chen Chin-huo's townhouse in Taichung County, where he also ran his motorcycle shop.