Hsieh Chih-Hung was just 20 years old when he was arrested for a crime he did not commit and sentenced to death. Accused in June 2000 of killing an 18-year-old woman and a 68-year-old man in Taiwan, he soon found himself on the stand on double murder charges. “My family, they tried everything they could for me, to tell the judge, to tell the court that I was innocent,” Hsieh told HKFP, speaking in Mandarin and Taiwanese through an interpreter. “I believed that our judicial system worked,” he said. “But then we received the judgement.” After a trial that relied on a confession which Hsieh alleg…
