The ruling reflects a compromise between international pressure for abolition and domestic support for harsh punishment to ...

Taiwan's Constitutional Court has upheld the legality of the death penalty but placed new restrictions on its application.

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I believe there are other forms of punishment which can help a schoolchild correct his or her behaviour, but not necessarily corporal punishment which inflicts pain on schoolchildren. I remember when ...