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Cabinet approves bill to increase penalties for negligence causing death
04/22/2021 04:26 PM
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A section of the Taroko Express train that crashed on April 2. The incident prompted the Cabinet to introduce the draft bill. CNA file photo
Taipei, April 22 (CNA) The Executive Yuan on Thursday approved a draft amendment bill that seeks to impose harsher penalties on people convicted of negligence causing death and damaging an occupied vehicle.
The bill will now be sent to the Judicial Yuan, which is expected to co-sign it, and then to the Legislative Yuan, where legislators will decide whether to pass the amendments into law.
The Executive Yuan yesterday approved a draft amendment that would stiffen penalties for offenders convicted of negligent homicide, amid controversy that Lee Yi-hsiang (李義祥), who was indicted after the Taroko Express derailment killed 49, might only face a five-year term.
Proposed by the Ministry of Justice, the amendment to the Criminal Code would impose increased sentences, as there is the perception that the existing statute is out of date and too lenient on offenders found to be responsible for incidents resulting in a high number of fatalities.
The punishments laid out in the law must be proportionate to the crimes committed, Premier
Cabinet to propose harsher penalties for negligence causing death
04/21/2021 08:56 PM
Lee Yi-hsiang (in yellow), who has been charged with negligence causing death. CNA photo April 8, 2021
Taipei, April 21 (CNA) The Executive Yuan is planning to propose harsher penalties for those convicted of negligence causing death, as the current maximum sentence of five years imprisonment has been criticized as being too lenient in the wake of the April 2 Taroko Express train crash in which 49 people died.
The Ministry of Justice has drafted amendments to the existing law and the Cabinet is expected to pass the proposal on Thursday, an Executive Yuan official who declined to be named told CNA.