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Capital punishment in Hong Kong
Capital punishment in Hong Kong was formally abolished in 1993 (following the repealing of the Corporal Punishment Ordinance).
Before then, capital punishment had been 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Victoria Prison Decommissioning Open Day )〕 The last execution in Hong Kong was carried out on 16 November 1966 when Wong Kai-Kei, age 26, was hanged at Stanley Prison.〔"Demise of the Death Penalty", South China Morning Post, 23 March 2004. Official Notebook of Mr R.V Brimmicombie-Wood recording executions in 1966. On display at Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum.〕 Following this, the death penalty was suspended.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 A Chronology of CSD's Development and Penal Measures of Hong Kong )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 WORLD FACTBOOK OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS - HONG KONG by Ian Dobinson )〕 In April 1993, capital punishment was officially abolished in Hong Kong.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Victoria Prison Decommissioning Open Day )〕 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〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Basic Law in Full Text )〕 despite the fact that capital punishment is still carried out in China.
==See also==
* Human rights in Hong Kong
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