Taiwanese officials and gentry appealed to Chiang Kai-shek to free Lin, but Lin refused to repent and was executed by firing squad at the age of just 34.
即使台灣仕紳聯名上書蔣介石求情，仍因林正亨堅拒在「悔過書」上簽字，而在台北馬場町刑場遭到槍決，時年僅 34 歲。