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.
