A fresh investigation into the crimes of a 21-year-old airman with Taiwan’s air force revealed that the man may have been wrongly executed.
Chiang Kuo-ching was found guilty of murdering and raping a five-year-old girl in 1996, he was executed by a firing squad in 1997.
His father lobbied the Control Yuan, the equivalent of the U.S GAO, for the case to be reviewed for the past 15 years. In May last year, the Control Yuan found seven flaws in the trial and a task force was formed one month later to reopen the investigation.
Since then, investigators found that another air force serviceman serving at the time had his DNA and palm prints matching those left at the crime scene.