Question No. 7
Reply by Secretary for Security to a Question by the Hon. CHAN Kam-chuen, JP, în the Legislative Council on 24th June, 1901
Question: In view of the recent public interest on the issue of capital punishment, will Government
state :
(a) the number of reported homicide cases
on an annual basis since 1945;
(b)
when the last convicted murderer was executed in Hong Kong; and
(c)
subsequent to (b), how many persons whose death sentence had been commuted to imprisonment have since been released?
Reply:
Sir,
(a)
(b)
(c)
Attached to the written version of this
answer is a table of statistics on homicide
cases reported in the last 35 years, expressed
in terms both of absolute numbers and cf rates
per hundred thousand population.
The last convicted murderer was executed in
Hong Kong on 16th November 1966.
Subsequent to (b) 15 of the 124 persons
whose death sentences have been commuted
to terms of imprisonment, have been released
to date.
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