Taiwan compensates trio after 11 years on death row

TAIPEI - Taiwan will pay a total of Tw$15 million ($500,000) compensation to three men who spent more than 11 years on death row before their acquittal in one of the island's most controversial murder trials, a court said Wednesday.

Su Chien-ho, Liu Bin-lang and Chuang Lin-hsun will each receive about Tw$5 million for wrongful imprisonment, the High Court said.