TAIWAN. TAIWAN PLANS ON INTODUCING CHINESE STYLE DEATH PENALTY WITH TWO YEARS SUSPENSION, JUSTICE MINISTER

the United Daily News (UDN) quoted Taiwan’s Justice Minister Shih Mao-lin as saying that Taipei was studying the possibility of following China's example of issuing a “death penalty with two years suspension” to give criminals a chance to repent.
“In 1979, China introduced the death penalty with two years suspension. If the convicts behaved well during the two years, their death sentence can be changed to a life sentence and later changed to shorter jail terms,” UDN quoted Shih as saying.
“We have asked scholars and experts to study the possibility of introducing ‘death penalty with two years suspension' to prepare for the eventual abolition of the death penalty,” he added.
But the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty blasted the Ministry’s plan, saying it contradicted President Chen Shui-bian's 2000 inauguration promise to abolish the death penalty. “Under the measure of 'death penalty with two years', only those who have behaved well are eligible for having their death penalty converted to a life sentence. We demand a moratorium on all executions and the eventual abolition of the death penalty,” association secretary Yeh Ting-chun said.