00:00Liang Yuqi, the Taiwanese man who killed a Malaysian student
00:05studying at Changzheng Christian University in Taiwan, has escaped the death penalty.
00:10The high court in Kaohsiung on Thursday reduced Liang's death sentence
00:15to life imprisonment in a second retrial, citing that his crime was not premeditated
00:20murder, did not reach the threshold of the most serious crime, and that he had
00:25potential for rehabilitation. Liang, who had previously been sentenced to death in
00:30both the first trial and the first retrial, was convicted of killing 24
00:35year old Chang in October 2020. Chang disappeared while walking
00:40to her dormitory near the Taiwan Railways Corporation's Shilun Line. Liang
00:45later confessed to using a rope to strangle Chang, drag her to his car, and abandon her
00:50body in a mountainous area in Kaohsiung City's Alian District.
00:55During the first trial, Chaotho District Court sentenced Liang to death for attempted rape
01:00murder, robbery murder, and corpse abandonment. The Kaohsiung
01:05court upheld the death sentence on appeal. The case was later brought before the Supreme Court
01:10court, which overturned and remanded the rape murder conviction while upholding the charge
01:15charges for attempted rape and corpse abandonment. Thursday's verdict is subject to appeal.
01:20The case was later on. The case was later on. The case was later on.
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