TAIWAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SCOOTER STABBING

May 26, 2021:

A Taiwanese court on 26 May 2021 sentenced a man to death for killing a scooter driver in a random knife attack.
Wang Ping-hua, 24, was convicted of murdering a man riding a scooter after quarrelling with his wife over where they should eat as the couple sat in a parked car.
"Wang stabbed and killed the victim, who was a stranger, by ambushing him from behind to vent his anger," Taipei district court said in a statement.
"His motive is vicious... and his action is cold-blooded and inhuman," it added.
The court rejected Wang's argument that he was suffering from multiple personality disorders at the time of the crime and was in a "state of unconsciousness" and therefore "had no control" over himself.
Its decision will be automatically appealed to a higher court.