Taiwan carries out first execution in two years amid anti-death penalty pleas

Taiwan executed a death-row inmate on Friday, the first execution carried out under President Tsai Ing-wen's government and despite ongoing calls from rights groups to abolish the death penalty. Lee Hung-chi was executed at a jail in southern Kaohsiung city Friday afternoon by firing squad, according to the justice ministry, for killing his ex-wife and five-year-old daughter in 2014. Lee stabbed his ex-wife to death outside the kindergarten their two daughters attended and then took one of the girls to his car, where he attempted to commit suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Lee survived after they were rescued but the girl died two months later despite treatment. "His acti...

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