| 英文摘要 |
In early 2013, the Supreme Court in Taiwan constructed the first set of sentencing guidelines for the death penalty. Since then, capital punishment decisions by the trial courts have required thorough consideration at different levels. Death sentences started to diverge from other criminal cases, resulting in a decline in the quantity of death penalty verdicts. While the decline of death penalty judgments attracts the most attention, the significance of establishing the sentencing guidelines for the death penalty lies in encouraging our country’s courts to make more nuanced judgments on capital punishment.
Although the meaning and practical implementation of the death penalty sentencing guidelines still have contentious aspects, and the strategies employed to address these issues have given rise to other challenges, the fact that courts must scrutinize all relevant factors at different levels before making the life or death decisions represents progress within the judicial system. |
