Wang Xin-fu (王信福) is the oldest man on death row in Taiwan and might be executed at any time for a crime in 1990 that he did not commit.
With the case taking place during a period with no presumption of innocence and laws rooted in authoritarian policing, Wang was already a dead man walking when his case was heard in 2006.
Before and during the 1990s, despite the end of martial law imposed by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), the legal and police system was still built around suppression tactics first seen in Taiwan during the White Terror era,