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Taiwan Resumes Executions

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Mar 08, 2011
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Last Friday, in a move that took most observers by surprise, Taiwan's Ministry of Justice executed five men who had been convicted of multiple murders. Two were shot in the heart, the other three likely in the brain stem under the ear, since they had signed documents donating their organs.

Capital punishment had just about become a thing of the past on t…

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