Taiwanese political commentator calls for implementation of caning for serious crimes
Taiwan News
Date: 202/11/03
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Undated photo of person receiving caning in Malaysia for engaging in sexual relationship. (AP photo)
On Friday (Oct. 30), news broke that 28-year-old suspect surnamed Liang (梁) had confessed to sexually assaulting and murdering a 24-year-old Malaysian female student surnamed Chung (鍾) who was studying in Tainan. As Chung's parents arrived in Taiwan on Sunday to claim their daughter's remains, political commentator Ellen Huang (黃越綏) on her Facebook page called for the legalization of caning.
In her post, Huang wrote that although the president of Chang Jung Christian University and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) over the weekend both offered apologies for Chung's death, "for the parents of the deceased, belated justice is not enough." She stated that in 1998, she held a press conference with Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Wang Sing-nan (王幸男) to call for the Ministry of Justice to legalize chemical castration or caning for four types of criminals: rapists, drug traffickers, habitual thieves, and murderers.
She wrote that the Minister of Justice Chen Ding-nan (陳定南) did not object to the proposal at the time and more than half of the legislators signed in approval. However, she lamented that in the end, "nothing came of it." [FULL STORY]
