A man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her mother has been executed by shooting. He's the first death row prisoner to have his sentence carried out in Taiwan in five years, and the first since President Lai Ching-te took office.
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00:00Taiwan has executed its first prisoner in five years.
00:05Death row inmate Huang Lingkai was sentenced for the 2013 killing of his ex-girlfriend
00:10and her mother.
00:11He was executed Thursday night by shooting.
00:13It is the first execution since President Lai Ching-tung took office last year.
00:18Thirty-six inmates remain on death row.
00:21Taiwan's constitutional court last year ruled that the death penalty was partly constitutional
00:26and should only be used for the most serious crimes.