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Capital punishment in Hong Kong was formally abolished on 23 April 1993 by virtue of the Crimes (Amendment) Ordinance 1993. Before then, capital punishment was the usual sentence given since the establishment of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong for offences such as murder, kidnapping ending in death, and piracy. Wikisource has original text related to this article:Crimes (Amendment) Ordinance 1993

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  • Capital punishment in Hong Kong (en)
  • 홍콩의 사형제 (ko)
  • 香港死刑制度 (zh)
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  • 홍콩은 영국 일반법 및 영국 국회에서 1861년부터 법을 시행하였다. (ko)
  • 香港曾經執行死刑，於1966年才停止執行，並以終身監禁代替，直至1993年立法廢除死刑。即使1997年香港特別行政區成立後，基於一國兩制，香港保留本身司法制度，中華人民共和國死刑制度不適用於香港。 (zh)
  • Capital punishment in Hong Kong was formally abolished on 23 April 1993 by virtue of the Crimes (Amendment) Ordinance 1993. Before then, capital punishment was the usual sentence given since the establishment of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong for offences such as murder, kidnapping ending in death, and piracy. Wikisource has original text related to this article:Crimes (Amendment) Ordinance 1993 (en)
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  • Capital punishment in Hong Kong was formally abolished on 23 April 1993 by virtue of the Crimes (Amendment) Ordinance 1993. Before then, capital punishment was the usual sentence given since the establishment of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong for offences such as murder, kidnapping ending in death, and piracy. The last execution in Hong Kong was carried out on 16 November 1966 when Wong Kai-Kei (Chinese: 黃啟基), age 25, was hanged at Stanley Prison. Wong was a Chinese-Vietnamese who, on 3 July 1966, was burglarizing the Chung Keen Company building in Sham Shui Po when he was spotted by security guard Chan Fat-Sang (Chinese: 陳佛生). Wong killed Chan and injured a woman in the subsequent fight, and was found guilty of murder and sentenced to execution by hanging. After his conviction, Wong attempted to appeal the sentence, claiming that he had confessed under duress, and also wrote to the Governor of Hong Kong David Trench seeking clemency. Reform Club chairman Brook Bernacchi published an open letter against the sentencing, claiming that Hong Kong, as a British colony, should not retain the death penalty when Great Britain had suspended (later abolishing) the death sentence for murder in the previous year, 1965. Wikisource has original text related to this article:Crimes (Amendment) Ordinance 1993 Following Wong's execution, the death penalty was suspended. The Governor of Hong Kong would as a matter of course commute the sentences of those convicted under the death penalty to life imprisonment under the Royal prerogative of mercy. In April 1993, capital punishment was officially abolished in Hong Kong. Since then, life imprisonment has been the most severe punishment in Hong Kong. Under the principle of independence of legal system in Hong Kong Basic Law, Hong Kong has continued its repudiation of capital punishment after its handover to the People's Republic of China despite that capital punishment is still regularly carried out in Mainland China. (en)
  • 홍콩은 영국 일반법 및 영국 국회에서 1861년부터 법을 시행하였다. (ko)
  • 香港曾經執行死刑，於1966年才停止執行，並以終身監禁代替，直至1993年立法廢除死刑。即使1997年香港特別行政區成立後，基於一國兩制，香港保留本身司法制度，中華人民共和國死刑制度不適用於香港。 (zh)
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