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REGISTRY No.52 2 APR 1975
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Press Review 9.0.75-15.4.75′′
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Punishment
Seven editorials were written on the subject of punishment in the past week following news that a resolution had recently been passed on corporal' punishment, and that representatives of social organisations in Hong Kong were planning to petition the Queen for enforcement of the death penalty.num.
Wah Kiu Yat Po (11.4.75) said that punishment had been too lenient in the past for prisoners attempting to escape and for people possessing offefisive weapons. The paper believed that corporal punishment would have a greater deterrent effect on criminals.......!
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Sharing this view, Nam Wah Man Po (11.4.75) believed that those who had been given corporal punishment once would not forget the painful experience for the rest of their lives. The paper thought that it would be the right kind of punishment for recidivists w "f
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Referring to suggestions that murderers who had had their death sentences commuted be jailed for life, Wah Kiu Yat Po (9.4.75) believed that, as a deterrent against murder, life imprisonment would be as effective as the death penalty.
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The paper felt that a few years' imprisonment for convicted murderers would only serve to encourage more killings.
Holding a different view, New Life Evening Post (9.4.75) felt that, it was necessary to restore capital punishment in Hong Kong in view of the worsening crime situation and that Hong Kong should not ask for life sentences as an alternative to commuting death sentences on convicted murderers.
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Referring to what it called British pressure on Hong Kong not to re-instate the death penalty, the paper said we should not follow Britain since our way of life was quite different from that of the British.
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Referring to what it called the British Government's refusal to allow the death penalty in Hong Kong, Sing Tao Wan Pao (15.4175) criticised the British Government for acting against, the wishes of the majority of people here and democratic principles.
Nam Wah Man Po (15.4.75) oxpressed discontent that Hong Kong should be controlled by British laws which were irrelevant to the situation in Hong Kong.
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New Life Evening Post (15.4.75) asserted that the British Parliament should not interfere with decisions made by the Hong Kong authorities because the situation in liong Kong was quite different from that in Britain.
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The paper hoped that the Hong Kong Government would put before the British Government as forceful as it could the case for the carrying out of capital purrishment.
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