Murderer, Rapist Avoids Death Penalty in Taiwan

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A man found guilty of killing, robbing, and raping a woman in 2014 has avoided the death penalty. Taiwan's top court ruled the murder was random, not premeditated, and therefore did not justify the use of capital punishment.

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00:00Taiwan's Supreme Court has upheld the life sentence given to a man who killed, robbed

00:06and raped a woman in 2014.

00:10The murderer, surnamed Liu, was given the death sentence in four previous verdicts.

00:15But after several appeals, the court ruled his crime was not premeditated.

00:22Under Taiwanese law, such random killings do not carry the death penalty.

00:27In September, Taiwan's constitutional court ruled to keep capital punishment, but said

00:32it should only be used in the most extreme cases.

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