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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Taiwan executes five death row inmates ANN - Sunday, March 6 Send IM Story Print Taipei (The China Post/ANN) - Taiwan's ministry of justice (MOJ) confirmed that five convicts on death row were executed yesterday. Officials also said that three of the executed men donated their organs, which could benefit more than a dozen people in Taiwan. According to an MOJ statement, the five death-row inmates were executed in Taipei, central Taichung, and southern Kaohsiung respectively 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. 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 in 2005. After the latest executions, 40 convicts remain 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. The resumption of the practice of executing convicts is expected to garner criticism from some Taiwanese people advocating the abolition of the death penalty, as well as members of the international community, including Amnesty International and the European Union. Lo Chih-chiang, presidential spokesman, said the Republic of China is a nation which operates under the rule of law and the government is duty bound to implement administrative measures in accordance with the law. Except for cases meriting postponement of executions, the government is obliged to proceed with the proper course as stipulated in the nation's laws, Lo said. The people of the nation have remained divided, although it has become an international trend to abolish the use of executions, Lo explained. He said President Ma Ying-jeou has maintained his position from the days when he served as justice minister more than a decade earlier. Taiwanese President Ma has been pushing for a reduction in death sentences in the legal system. But the MOJ has to take due actions in line with the law if there are not sufficient legal grounds for delaying the execution of convicts already placed on death row, he explained. Johnny Chiang, spokesman of the Executive Yuan, also stressed the government has been abiding by the law to accomplish its mandated administrative responsibilities. He said the Cabinet respects the MOJ's responsibility to carry out administrative tasks in accordance with the law. Minister of justice Tseng made a public apology in the evening for telling lawmakers and reporters earlier in the day that he did not sign the decree to carry out the executions. Tseng explained that he had to stick to the existing regulations that require secrecy about any executions. There were mixed reactions on the executions. Groups opposing the use of executions staged a protest in front of the MOJ in the evening. They spread five black veils on the ground and lit five candles in commemoration of the five people put to death. They renewed their call to abolish death sentences since there is no guarantee that people would not be wrongly convicted. People backing the executions stated that it's the government's obligation to take appropriate action and abide by the law. Several legislators praised the courage of Minister Tseng for fulfilling his administrative duty in line with the regulations. Members of some of the families of the five executed convicts declined to make any official comment, saying it was over. Reporters were unable to contact other families that had moved long ago. Several hospitals in Taiwan confirmed that they had taken the proper steps to transplant organs from the donors to patients on the waiting lists. They said the three donors had long ago signed agreements to give organs to people who need them. Adequate preparations were taken before and after the executions were carried out, they added. 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