聖艾智德團體 (Community of Sant’Egidio) 與國際特赦組織 (Amnesty International) 等多國團體曾發起全世界暫緩死刑的倡議,該倡議書獲得了五百萬人簽名,並於2007年遞交給聯合國大會。世界反死刑聯盟(World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, WCADP) 作為參與的主要組織,再次呼籲暫緩死刑判決和執行,以期最終在全世界徹底廢除死刑。
On World Day Against the Death Penalty yesterday, anti-capital punishment and education reform activists urged the government to introduce the debate on death penalty in schools so that students could start thinking about controversial issues early.
“When we try to promote abolition of the death penalty, we often run into supporters of capital punishment who refuse to talk to us at all,” Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty executive director Lin Hsin-yi (林欣怡) told a news conference in Taipei yesterday.