Lack of confidence in judicial decisions Zheng Yunpeng: I don’t think Taiwan has the conditions to abolish death penalty

[周刊王CTWANT] 37 death row inmates believe that the death penalty violates the constitutional right to equality and survival, and petitioned for a constitutional review. The Constitutional Court held an oral debate on the 23rd. Former legislator Zheng Yunpeng said that he had little confidence in the death penalty imposed by Taiwan’s judicial system, emphasizing that he did not believe that Taiwan is now What are the conditions for abolishing death?

Representatives from the Alliance Promoting the Abolition of Death and those opposing the Abolition of Death launched a five-hour oral debate in the Constitutional Court. The outside world is paying considerable attention to the stance of the Ministry of Justice. Minister of Justice Tsai Ching-hsiang stated that regarding the death penalty interpretation case, the Ministry of Justice has a clear position and believes that the provision of death penalty is constitutional. In the past, the justices have interpreted the constitution on this issue and the result was that The death penalty is constitutional and the current situation has not changed significantly.

Faced with the issue of “the survival and abolition of the death penalty,” Zheng Yunpeng said that it is first necessary to clarify that Taiwan has never abolished the death penalty. It has only gradually changed it from “the only death penalty in which the court has no discretion on individual cases to the death penalty or life imprisonment with discretion.” The current The current situation in judicial practice is not that the death penalty is abolished, but that the new generation of judges is increasingly refusing to impose the death penalty. This is a worldwide judicial trend.

“Because other progressive democracies that Chinese people are familiar with, such as Japan and the United States, have the death penalty, it is difficult for Chinese people to accept the abolitionist concept from Europe. However, many justices studied in Europe. I think this It’s their blind spot.” Zheng Yunpeng doesn’t think that Taiwan needs to care too much about what European countries want Taiwan to do at this stage.

Zheng Yunpeng further stated that he did not think Taiwan had any conditions to abolish the death penalty, and he had little confidence in the death penalty imposed by Taiwan’s judicial system. Zheng said that there have been many unjust cases in Taiwan in the past, and one unjust death penalty case will be settled every two years. Many death penalty cases that have been fought for ten or twenty years have been acquitted or successfully reversed. The country still uses your tax dollars to deal with unjust cases. compensation. (Of course there are also Japan and the United States, and there are many similar dramas)

In addition, Zheng Yunpeng added suggestions on the abolition of the death penalty. He pointed out that the Supreme Court and the Judicial Yuan can conduct large-scale studies every five years. Even if the study is explicitly focused on abolishing the death penalty, it does not matter. We must create a A judicial and prison system that can be trusted should be observed every five years to observe changes in social conditions. If abolition of death is a Utopia for the Judicial Yuan, ask the Judicial Yuan to build it instead of just talking. Every country should discuss it. In fact, few people have the patience to understand whether the death penalty should be preserved or abolished.

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