3 on death row 11 years indemnified in Taiwan
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April 11, 2013, Thursday
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TAIWAN will pay a total of NT$15 million (US$500,000) in compensation to three men who spent more than 11 years on death row before their acquittal in one of the island's most controversial murder trials, a court said yesterday.
Su Chien-ho, Liu Bin-lang and Chuang Lin-hsun will each receive about NT$5 million for wrongful imprisonment, the High Court said.
The trio, who said they were tortured into making confessions, were first sentenced to death 21 years ago for the murder of a couple in Taipei.
Their legal plight began after a soldier who confessed in 1991 to killing the couple claimed they were his accomplices. The soldier was executed the following year after a military trial.
They have had a series of trials and retrials that saw their death sentences lifted and then reimposed until the High Court made a final ruling in their favor last year.
Taiwan's human rights groups have seized on the case to call on the government to abolish capital punishment.
Taiwan maintains the death penalty, reserving it for serious crimes including aggravated murder, kidnapping and robbery. Last year, Taiwan executed six inmates, the largest number to be put to death in one day in recent years.
Su Chien-ho, Liu Bin-lang and Chuang Lin-hsun will each receive about NT$5 million for wrongful imprisonment, the High Court said.
The trio, who said they were tortured into making confessions, were first sentenced to death 21 years ago for the murder of a couple in Taipei.
Their legal plight began after a soldier who confessed in 1991 to killing the couple claimed they were his accomplices. The soldier was executed the following year after a military trial.
They have had a series of trials and retrials that saw their death sentences lifted and then reimposed until the High Court made a final ruling in their favor last year.
Taiwan's human rights groups have seized on the case to call on the government to abolish capital punishment.
Taiwan maintains the death penalty, reserving it for serious crimes including aggravated murder, kidnapping and robbery. Last year, Taiwan executed six inmates, the largest number to be put to death in one day in recent years.
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