A Taiwan court has sentenced a man to death for stabbing his upstairs neighbors in front of their children over a noise dispute in Kaohsiung. The court ruled he was remorseless and sane in a rare, unanimous decision—the country’s first death penalty case since last September’s constitutional review.
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00:00A Kaohsiung man has been sentenced to death for murdering a married couple in front of
00:05their two young children.
00:07The man, surnamed Wu, stabbed his upstairs neighbors to death over a noise dispute in
00:122023.
00:14A court in the southern city ruled he showed no remorse and it found no evidence of mental
00:19illness.
00:20The judges handed down two separate death sentences in a rare unanimous decision.
00:25It marks the first such ruling since Taiwan's constitutional court reviewed the death penalty
00:29last year.