Women, Crime and the Courts

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Kwan was sick of feeling second-class to her husband's concubine. Late one humid night, she grabbed the cleaver. Within minutes, three people were dead: the concubine with over 70 gashes.Kwan became the last woman in Hong Kong to suffer the death penalty. Behind the stories of the city's female murderers lie complex webs of jealousies, poverty and despair.