Luo Ying-shay

Luo graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Department of Law of the National Taiwan University. She received her master's degree in criminal justice from the University at Albany in the United States.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

After completing her education, Luo practiced law.{{cite news|url=https://www.ettoday.net/news/20210404/1953097.htm|title=法務部前部長羅瑩雪辭世 享壽69歲|publisher=Eastern Broadcasting Company|date=4 April 2021|accessdate=4 April 2021|language=zh-hant}} Luo became a lecturer at the Central Police University in Taoyuan in 1977.{{cite web |url=http://www.wantchinatimes.com/whoswho-cnt.aspx?id=20110215000027&cid=20 |title=Luo Ying-shay (羅瑩雪)｜Who's Who｜WantChinaTimes.com |publisher=Wantchinatimes.com |date=1951-11-08 |accessdate=2014-04-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110223093602/http://www.wantchinatimes.com/whoswho-cnt.aspx?id=20110215000027&cid=20 |archive-date=2011-02-23 |url-status=dead }} She was an advocate of children's rights, and, during the 1990s, backed several amendments to the Child Welfare Act.{{cite news |last1=Lin |first1=Chang-shun |last2=Yeh |first2=Joseph |title=Former Justice Minister Luo Ying-shay dies at age 69 |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202104040010 |agency=Central News Agency |date=4 April 2021}} Republished as: {{cite news |title=Luo Ying-shay, minister under Ma, dies aged 69 |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2021/04/05/2003755118 |access-date=5 April 2021 |work=Taipei Times |date=4 April 2021}}{{cite news |title=前法務部長羅瑩雪69歲辭世 兒少福利修法推手 |url=https://www.cna.com.tw/amp/news/firstnews/202104045006.aspx |access-date=4 April 2021 |agency=Central News Agency |date=4 April 2021 |language=zh}}

In April 2012, Luo, on behalf of President Ma Ying-jeou, officiated a traditional ceremony to salute Genghis Khan of the Mongol Empire with some 200 Mongolians living in Taiwan. Luo said that Khan was a man with great talent and bold vision who broke ground and expanded frontiers. Luo and other dignitaries then offered flowers, incense and silk.{{cite news|title=MTAC minister delivers Ma's salute to Mongolia's 'bold' Genghis Khan|url=http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2012/04/12/337582/MTAC-minister.htm|accessdate=3 September 2015|work=China Post|date=12 April 2012}}

In early April 2013, the plan to merge the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission (MTAC) with the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) became an area of concern. Responding to the confusion, Luo said that the merger was not ideal, as approaching relations to Mongolia through the MAC might have caused the Mongolian government to believe that Taiwan's position was that Mongolia was a part of the People's Republic of China. Luo further clarified that direct Mongolia–Taiwan relations were diplomatic, while ethnic Mongolians and Tibetans in China and Taiwan were covered under Cross–Strait and domestic policies, respectively.{{cite web|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/04/04/2003558764 |title=Lawmakers voice worries over ties with Mongolia |publisher=Taipei Times |date=2014-04-23 |accessdate=2014-04-30}}

In early April 2013, Luo was questioned by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmaker Chen Chi-mai regarding the effectiveness of the MTAC-sponsored student exchange program from Taiwan to Inner Mongolia because most reports made of the trip by the Taiwanese students mentioned the ample drinking opportunities presented to them during the program. The DPP lawmaker even slammed Luo when he found out that one of the student reports said that "people from both side of the Taiwan Strait belong to one family".{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

Luo defended the program by stating that the drinking was only one of many other activities conducted during the student exchange program, which also included visits to historical and cultural sites. She also said that the students may have emphasized drinking because it was a novel experience they did not have in Taiwan.{{cite web|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/04/04/2003558765 |title=Lawmaker slams commission's 'drinking program' |publisher=Taipei Times |date=2014-04-23 |accessdate=2014-04-30}}

The Executive Yuan announced Luo's appointment to become the Minister of Justice on 23 September 2013. She was the third woman to hold the post.

On 29 April 2014, five convicts were executed after Luo gave the order to carry out the death sentences the day before, the first order since Luo took office as Minister of Justice in September 2013. Executions were done in prisons in Taipei, Taichung, Tainan and Hualien. The five executed inmates were Teng Kuo-liang (鄧國樑), Tu Ming-hsiung (杜明雄), Tu Ming-lang (杜明郎), Liu Yang-kuo (劉炎國) and Tai Wen-ching (戴文慶). They all had committed serious crimes including murders, sexual assaults and robberies. All of the five verdicts had received their final verdicts from the Supreme Court.{{cite web|url=http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2014/04/30/406539/Justice-minister.htm |title=Justice minister issues first order to execute 5 death row convicts |publisher=The China Post |date= |accessdate=2014-04-30}}

On 28 March 2016, Luo departed to mainland China for a 5-day visit at the invitation of Supreme People's Procuratorate of the People's Republic of China becoming the first Justice Minister of the Government of the Republic of China to visit the mainland in her official capacity after the end of Chinese Civil War in 1949.{{Cite web|url=http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201603280006.aspx|title = Taiwan's justice minister on historic visit to China - Focus Taiwan| date=28 March 2016 }}

Luo died on 3 April 2021, aged 69. Although Kuomintang Culture and Communications Committee director-general Alicia Wang did not disclose a cause of death when announcing Luo's death, Luo had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013.

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