ISTANBUL  Taiwan executed a death row inmate Thursday, marking the first execution since President Lai Ching-te assumed office last year. The Justice Ministry announced that Justice Minister Cheng Ming-chien had signed the execution order. The execution was carried out Thursday night by a firing squad at the Taipei Detention Center. The inmate, 32-year-old Huang Lin-kai, was sentenced to death in 2017 for the rape and murder of his ex-girlfriend and the murder of her mother on Oct. 1, 2013 in