Tag: Death Penalty
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Taiwan Constitutional Court’s Solomonic Judgment: Upholding the Constitutionality of Death Penalty at the Limits of Reform
—Ming-Sung Kuo, Reader in Law, University of Warwick (UK), and Hui-Wen Chen, Research Assistant, University of Warwick (UK) Introduction: The Reform Jurisprudence Comes Full Circle? Before the current Taiwan Constitutional Court (TCC) under the leadership of Chief Justice Tzong-Li HSU – call it Hsu’s Court – hit its halfway milestone, we argued in this space…
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The Death Penalty in Sri Lanka: Hanging by a Thread
–Mario Gomez, Executive Director, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka In December 2018, the United Nations General Assembly (GA) voted overwhelmingly once again, for a universal moratorium on the use of the death penalty.[1] 121 countries voted in favour, 35 voted against, and 32 abstained.