Supreme Court rejects retrial request from death row inmate

Taiwan's Supreme Court has rejected a request for a retrial from death row inmate Lu Wen-sheng (呂文昇), ruling that a lower court's decision to dismiss the petition was procedurally sound and legally valid.

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