On January 16 this year, Justice Minister CHENG,MING-CHIEN approved the execution order for death row inmate HUANG,LIN-KAI, and he was shot at the Taipei Detention Center execution ground at 10:02 p.m. that evening, making it the first “death penalty execution” case since President LAI,CHING-TE took office. In this regard, experts pointed out that data shows that every execution of the death penalty can reduce a number of homicides, which shows that there is a direct correlation between “the suspension of the death penalty and the increase in crime rates.”
Taiwan’s youngest death row inmate is executed! He was the first person executed during LAI,CHING-TE term, and all details were made public
Since 1950, Taiwan has executed about 700 to 800 death row inmates, with 78 people executing in 1990, the highest annual record. HUANG,LIN-KAI, 32, was dissatisfied with his 19-year-old girlfriend Wang’s breakup proposal. In 2013, he strangled her 47-year-old mother with a scout rope and then raped and killed his girlfriend, committing a double murder. In 2017, he was sentenced to death and was executed the day before yesterday (16), becoming the first death penalty case executed during President LAI,CHING-TE term.
It has been nearly 3 years since the last execution in Taiwan! It is understood that HUANG,LIN-KAI was executed at 10:02 pm on January 16 at the Taipei Detention Center execution ground in Tucheng, New Taipei City. The execution order was signed by Minister of Justice CHENG,MING-CHIEN. The execution team members included prosecutors, forensic doctors, clerks, bailiff captains and two bailiffs and security personnel. The execution was carried out using a domestically-made T75 pistol equipped with a silencer.
Can the death penalty deter crime? This state has 150 more homicides after a four-year moratorium
This execution has once again sparked heated debate in society on the issue of whether to abolish the death penalty. According to ETtoday, Wang Po-Chi, associate professor of the Department of Crime Prevention at Ming Chuan University, once cited American research data to point out that there is a direct correlation between the execution of the death penalty and a drop in crime rates.
Does the death penalty have a deterrent effect? Wang Po-Chi mentioned that according to research from the University of Colorado, each execution can reduce an average of five homicides, while data from Emory University in Atlanta showed that each execution can prevent 18 homicides.
In addition, Wang Po-Chi cited the example that after Illinois suspended the death penalty in 2000, the number of homicides surged by 150 in the four years. It can be seen that these statistics all show that the death penalty has a significant deterrent effect.