Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty
Press Release, March 10, 2010
On February 23, Legislator Wu Yu-sheng said in a question session in the legislature that he was not opposed to abolishing the death penalty, but that the 44 prisoners currently on death row should be executed. On March 8, the nominee for prosecutor-general Huang Shi-ming told the legislature he supports scrapping capital punishment, but that a legal basis must be drawn up to allow for postponing executions. In absence of this, death row inmates should be executed soon after their sentence is finalized.
This morning, National Police Agency Director-General Wang Cho-chiun, responding to a question from Legislator Wu, said finalized death penalty sentences should be carried out.