Death sentence upheld for Taiwan killer
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TAIWAN’S highest court yesterday upheld the death sentence handed down to a university student over a random May 2014 knife attack in a subway car in Taipei that left four people dead and 22 injured.
The denial of Cheng Chieh’s third and final appeal draws a line under one of the most shocking crimes to strike the island in years.
Before the attack, Cheng posted a message on his Facebook page saying he “wanted to do something big.”
During sentencing by a lower court, he was quoted as saying that he would not mind receiving a death sentence.
Memories of the case were revived last month with an apparently random knife attack and decapitation of a 3-year-old girl in front of her mother in Taipei, the island’s capital.
A 33-year-old man with a history of drug use and mental illness has been arrested in that case.
Some social scientists have questioned whether social alienation, joblessness and a loss of hope were fueling such actions among young men.
Despite a legal push to abolish the death penalty, it continues to receive strong support among the public.
Executions are carried out by a single gunshot to the head.
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