OUTRAGE: The decision to sentence Sun Kuo-huang to life in prison was condemned by the father of Chang Chih-tien, who Sun killed in November 2010 to steal his identity
Taipei Times
Date: Jan 25, 2019
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Sun Kuo-huang (孫國晃) was spared the death sentence yesterday in favor of life
Sun Kuo-huang is pictured after his arrest in Kaohsiung on Nov. 24, 2010.
Photo: Wang Jung-hsiang, Taipei Times
imprisonment in the fourth retrial for 2010 murder of a graduate student in Kaohsiung.
The Kaohsiung Branch of Taiwan High Court found the 42-year-old Sun guilty of the murder of Chang Chih-tien (張志添), a doctoral student at National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, but overturned the previous convictions that had sentenced him to death.
The judges’ ruling said that while Sun had admitted to the murder in the earlier trials, he had been segregated from society since his earlier convictions, during which time he received educational training, indicting there was a possibility of rehabilitation.
Prosecutors had long argued that Sun, who was 30 at the time of Chang’s death, had murdered him in a bid to steal his identity and avoid serving an eight-year and six-month prison sentence he had received in October 2010 for the repeated rapes of a high-school student in 2006. [FULL STORY]
