Taiwanese rally for death penalty after child’s beheading

epa05252334 A boy waves a white flower to show sympathy to the four-year-old child beheading victim during a protest in Taipei, Taiwan, 10 April 2016. Hundreds of protesters gathered at a street calling for the government action to reinforce death penalty after the beheading of a four-year-old toddler incident on 28 March 2016 in downtown Taipei. EPA/RITCHIE B. TONGO

TAIPEI: Hundreds of Taiwanese rallied Sunday to show support for retaining the death penalty, after the beheading of a child in a street attack shocked the island.

Demonstrators dressed in black and held white roses in mourning for the four-year-old girl murdered on March 28 near a Taipei metro station. Many wore stickers reading “Death penalty is necessary.”