ADPAN is appealing to the Taiwan authorities not to sign the execution warrant for Cheng Hsing-tse and to introduce an immediate moratorium on all executions.
Cheng Hsing-tse faces imminent execution following a decision made on 11 December by the Prosecutor General to reject a request for an extraordinary appeal. He was sentenced to death for killing a police officer in 2002 and his sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court in 2006.
專責「法外處決、草率及任意處決」的聯合國特別報告員(the Special Rappourteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions)克里斯多夫・海恩斯 (Christof Heyns)在最近一次報告中指出,全球各國使用死刑的情形趨緩,目前193個聯合國會員國中,只有50個仍維持死刑,其餘皆已廢除或停止執行死刑。但即便如此,全球仍至少有18,000個待決死囚,因許多國家死刑資訊不透明,數字恐怕更高。