POINTS TO MAKE
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (DEFENSIVE)
5.
Understand strength of feeling in Hong Kong ont his. But
there has been no change in the position since 1973.
6.
[If raised]. If Parliament were to reintroduce capital
punishment in the UK, situation clearly different. But by no means
certain. Moreover likely that only certain types of murder would be
affected.
Hong Kong Department
30 June 1983