Agrument between Mr. Soloman Rafeek, president of the Canal Road Kaifong
Association and Mr. Cheung Chi-heung, chief of the Boy Scouts Association (Eastern District).
Mr. Soloman Rafeek
The Government has not carried out capital punishment for 6 years,
and has commuted the death sentence on several occasions. So capital
punishment was unknowingly abolished. Nobody showed any disappointment. But now, suddenly, many people speak out denouncing the reprieve of Tsoi
Kowk Cheong.
It is unfair to the individual.
Secondly, Tsoi committed the murder more than one year ago, should not be sentenced according to the present situation.
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Furthermore, Tsoi did not commit a pre-meditated murder. Since
many cold-blooded murderers have been reprieved, it would be unjust if Tsoi alone is singled out.
The Government should make known its intentions before it enforces
capital punishment in future.
Mr. Cheung Chi-heung
The Government has not officially announced any change in the law
concerning capital punishment. Once a murderer has been convicted, he should
pay with his own life; there is no need for the Government to make any advanced warning.
Law should be enforced in line with the present position.
"Killers
The motive or the planning of a murder is a separate problem.
must be hanged" is the Chinese traditional theory to control the order of
society.