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Following Wong's execution, the death penalty was suspended. [5] The Governor of Hong Kong would as a matter of course commute the sentences of those convicted under the death penalty to life imprisonment under the Royal prerogative of mercy. [6] In April 1993, capital punishment was officially abolished in Hong Kong. [7]
Similarly, ten out of 15 other people on death row (alongside Wong) were separately filing appeals against the death penalty, most of whom were convicted of either murder or drug trafficking. [38] [39] On 20 May 1985, Wong lost his appeal against the murder conviction and death sentence.
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
A Chinese-Australian writer has received a suspended death penalty in China, five years after he was detained on espionage charges, according to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
A Chinese court gave a suspended death sentence to a China-born Australian democracy blogger on Monday. The Australian government, which has repeatedly raised his case over the years, said it was ...
Sim Woh Kum (Chinese: 冼松锦; pinyin: Xiǎn Sōngjǐn; c. 1933 – 27 July 1973), also spelt Sim Wor Kum, was a Singaporean who was best known to be the accomplice of Mimi Wong, a bar hostess who was the first woman to be sentenced to death for murder in Singapore since its independence.
The ruling party won 83 of 93 parliamentary seats in the 2020 election. But, with the election held amid pandemic upheaval, its share of the popular vote dropped to a near-record low, and the 10 ...
Wong's corpse was discovered by her fiancé and ten days after her killing, Wong's killer Yap Biew Hian (叶谋贤 Yè Mǒuxián), a fellow tenant of the house and also a Malaysian, was arrested for the case and charged. [2] Yap, who admitted to killing the victim with intent to rob her, was sentenced to death three years after he murdered Wong ...