A group of PFP legislators said capital punishment should be used to deter snakeheads from smuggling people across the Taiwan Strait.
PFP Legislator Tsao Yuan-jhang (曹原彰) said the crimes committed by the leaders of human trafficking rings are so heinous that only capital punishment would help bring justice to their victims and to the nation.
At a public hearing on the issue of cross-strait human trafficking, Tsao said the ringleaders should be given the death penalty or at least life imprisonment, in addition to a fine of over NT$10 million (US$293,255).
PFP Legislator Chiu Yi (
Chiu added that Taiwanese men who solicit sex with Chinese prostitutes are an important factor behind the growing problem of human smuggling.
Those patrons should be dealt with squarely by law enforcement authorities, including such measures as making their names public, Chiu said.
PFP Legislator Hsieh Chang-chieh (
In response to the suggestions, Sung Kuo-yeh (宋國業), deputy director of the Mainland Affairs Council's legal affairs department, said a draft amendment to the Statutes Governing the Relations between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (兩岸人民關係條例) stipulates prison terms of one to seven years for human traffickers.
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