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Updated Saturday, January 30, 2010 11:14 am TWN, The China Post news staff

74 percent of people are for capital punishment

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A total of 74 percent of the people in Taiwan are against the abolition of the capital punishment, and over half of them think death-row inmates should be executed, a latest survey has found.

It is the first time that more than 50 percent of the people surveyed in Taiwan have called for the execution of those condemned to death, the United Daily News cited the poll results as indicating.

The survey, conducted by National Chung Cheng University, also showed that 75 percent of the respondents thought crime problems were bad last year, and 72 percent were dissatisfied with the government's crime-fighting efforts.

A total of 54 percent of the respondents were worried about safety of their own or their families, while over 60 percent distrusted the law enforcement.

In response to the Council of Grand Justices' ruling that the government decriminalize prostitution in two years, 53 percent of the respondents did not agree.

Younger respondents tended to support the decriminalization of prostitution, but a high percentage of those 60-year-old and above were opposed to the change, the paper cited the results as showing.

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February 4, 2010 wuweide@

Taiwan should abolish the death penalty - there have been numerous cases of the innocent being executed for crimes they didn't commit. Taiwan is a compassionate society - let's strive for laws that match our compassion. Peace.

February 4, 2010 tsu4ever@

wuweide@ wrote:
Taiwan should abolish the death penalty - there have been numerous cases of the innocent being executed for crimes they didn't commit. Taiwan is a compassionate society - let's strive for laws that match our compassion. Peace.

You will regret this when your family or loved one was killed or murdered by those madaf-kers.

February 5, 2010 johnny.brian@

Death penalty abolished? I think it is pro-life unless some prisoners done heinous crime. Still some people still being executed for the crimes they did not commit. Many times, with strong and powerful connections, criminals are set free. How ironic!

February 5, 2010 elumpen@

Aren't those 60% who "don't trust law enforcement" worried that they might one day end up being executed by same for a crime they didn't commit? If you have a top-notch legal process (can't think of anywhere in the world where that is actually the case) then the argument about the death penalty is purely a moral one. When you have untrained and lazy policemen, and an inexperienced and not-very-clever judiciary, it's a practical one: executing the wrong people is going to happen way too often.

February 6, 2010 the_alliance47@

tsu4ever@ wrote:
You will regret this when your family or loved one was killed or murdered by those madaf-kers.

Killing that person will not bring your family member back. It only perpetuates the vicious cycle of violence. Why waste tax dollars on state-sanctioned homicide when you can save tons of money by keeping them in jail for life without parole? State-sanctioned homicide is a grave violation of international human rights. It is a quality that befits a backwards, authoritarian regime like the Chinese Communist Party. Taiwan should not be a country that violates human rights like that.

February 7, 2010 lmchong@

Death penalty is the most ecological way for solving a country’s criminal activities. Those who are against death penalty are probably harboring unlawful or sinister plans in mind, and therefore fear being executed. Taiwan Law enforcement is one of the most transparent in the World. Besides, do you know how many environmental problems are caused by long-term prisoners? The social costs are too high for having leniency to any bad offender. How many of the claimed "wrongly executed people" are really so innocent? Usually family members of those executed try to get some gains by pretending their relatives are innocent.

February 27, 2010 elumpen@

That's not much of an argument, lmchong. "Most ecological way"? Considering Taiwan's bottom-of-the-league status on environmental matters, I would have thought a prisoner's carbon footprint isn't of much concern here. The Nazis used similar logic - cleaning up the nation - to justify gassing Jews and the mentally-ill (how about that: I got in a 'reductio ad Hitlerum' already). Besides, in America, where they do at least have some semblance of justice, it costs millions to get a death sentence actually carried out; lawyers emit a lot more carbon (and gas in general) than prisoners. It's simpler to just put the person in jail. And what's with the "how many" and "usually"? If you were one of those few people, you wouldn't be best pleased. If you're executing at the rate China is (for example), and the false-positive rate is 1%, that's still way too many innocent people.

November 8, 2010 give.me.fish@

Why don't those hypocritical idiots like you live with those bastards? How about sending your daughter to be with those perverts?

November 8, 2010 elumpen@

Hm. I think I see a solution to Taiwan's crazy traffic situation here ("Ireland relaxes licensing rules for Taiwanese drivers", "Fines to be issued for blocking emergency services on the road"). Simply make it a capital offense to drive like an idiot. Since 74% of the population think capital punishment is a Good Thing, they'll all agree. We'll have traffic as free-flowing as Singapore (and probably as sparse) within 24 hours.


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