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A woman was sentenced to death in the Supreme Court yesterday for murder. It is believed to be the first post war death penalty passed on a woman in Hongkong.
The woman, Wan Mai nui (33), who took part m the brutal benting, of a tan und he died, because he had cheated a call puri racket of $2,600, was found guity of murder by a Crimmal Sessions jury.
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Wan, who operated a brothel, wept when Mi ComETES GORET Baber passed the death sentence on lies.
Community leaders and members of the legal profession reacted with nuxed teclips when asked for their views on the death semenre for Women.
Mr Peter C, K, Chan, a barrister and Urban Councilor, sand both men and women should be eqital before the law.
"It people argue that the feed penalty, that is death, should be applied to men and not to women, i think, women should be the first to fight agamist it.
“I think women, in many cases, have been lighting, for equality and this is the right time to do it,” he said,
Mr John Rear, Exitor of the Hongkong Law Journal, sand, "Personally, I am apained the death pensity, but af at av to be applied it should be upphed equally to men and women.”
Mr Ho Kwok sing, an old Hongkong resident, recalled a case in 1941 when a wontan was hanged for the murder of her husband's concubine and her son.
"The woman was taken to court for trial and the case stured up the community then. That was the only case of a death sentence on a woman i can recall,” said Mr Ho. He is 90.
According to law reports, the last case of a woman being sentenced to death in England was in the late 1950s. She was convicted of shooting her boy-friend.
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