Supreme Court upholds life imprisonment for arsonist sentenced to death

The life imprisonment verdict handed down by the Taiwan High Court in the case of an ethnic Chinese man from Myanmar, who was initially sentenced to death for setting a fire in his rented residence that killed nine people, was upheld by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, rejecting an appeal from prosecutors.

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