Overcoming family tragedy, attorney urges death penalty abolition in court debate

Taiwan's constitutional court debated the death penalty on Tuesday, with one attorney representing death row convicts sharing a personal story to call for an end to state retribution, while Ministry of Justice officials maintained that capital punishment does not violate the right to existence.

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