CONFIDENTIAL
HONG KONG STATISTICS ON DEATH SENTENCES
ANNEX A
1.
Since 1960 90 persons have been convicted of murder and
sentenced to death. 14 were executed and the sentences on the
remainder (76) were commuted.
November 1966.
The last execution was in
2. The sentences imposed on commutation of the death penalty
were as follows:
No of Cases
W N
3
1
2
10
11
16
5
?
1
Sentence in Years
10
12
14
15
18
20
22
25
30
Life Imprisonment
3.
4
17
During the same period 340 persons were convicted of
manslaughter
4.
most of whom were charged with murder.
Details of sentences in lieu of the death penalty imposed and actually served are attached. Dates refer to the year the prisoner was first admitted into prison and not necessarily to the year the
sentence was commuted.
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