‘WHITE PEOPLE’S GODS’:KMT Legislator Alex Tsai said that Democratic Progressive Party lawmakers are ’lazy,’ following the preferences of anti-death-penalty Europeans

Taipei Times
Date: Jun 01, 2015
By: Alison Hsiao  /  Staff reporter

Deputy Legislative Speaker Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) on Saturday night listed six reasons to keep the death penalty, while KMT Legislator Alex Tsai (蔡正元) responded negatively to Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) call for the abolition of capital punishment to become a universal value.

The killing of an eight-year-old girl has enraged the nation and some politicians have weighed in on the debate over the abolition of death penalty.

Hung said she supports capital punishment because “calls to abolish the death penalty have blind spots.”

“First, there is no way the state can refrain entirely from killing people. Which country could keep every life sacrosanct and not kill a single person?” Hung asked.

For example, a police officer who is compelled to shoot a person who is threatening lives cannot consider how that person has been psychologically affected by childhood issues or discrimination,” Hung said.

Hung asked whether those who want the death penalty abolished also oppose weapons manufacturing.     [FULL  STORY]