FEATURE/Attorney transforms personal tragedy into advocacy against death penalty
09/19/2024 04:34 PM
"In the year of 1996... A-Ma was robbed on a hot summer night and left for dead in the street," attorney Essen Lee (李宣毅) recounted the tragic incident surrounding the death of his grandmother at the Constitutional Court in April.
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