Taipei, March 4 (CNA) Five convicts on death row were executed in Taiwan Friday, the Ministry of Justice said in a statement, potentially dealing the country's international human rights image a severe blow.
The executions came less than a year after the ministry resumed enforcing capital punishment verdicts last April after ending an unofficial moratorium on the execution of death-row inmates that had existed since 2005.
The resumption of the practice was widely criticized by the international community, including by Amnesty International and the European Union.
According to the MOJ statement, the five death-row inmates were executed Friday evening after Minister of Justice Tseng Yung-fu signed their execution decrees earlier in the day.
The five inmates were identified as Guang Chung-yen, Wang Kuo-hua, Chung Teh-shu, Wang Chih-huang and Chuang Tien-chu, the statement said.
After Friday's executions, there remained 40 convicts on death row, according to official tallies.
The death penalty was last carried out in Taiwan on April 30, 2010, when four death row inmates were executed.
Source: Focus Taiwan, March 4, 2011
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