Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 16, Number 12, 1 December 1999 — Death penalty [ARTICLE]

Death penalty

I have been following a lot of issues and I stumbled across an advertisement that caught my attention with two words: Death sentence. Hawahans are at risk. Although the State of Hawai'i has banned the death sentence by law, the federal government may carry out this death sentence - the

same government that has been governing our kingdom for hundreds of years. Richard L. Chong is Hawahan and he is from the Kingdom of Hawai'i as are 81,598 Hawaiians of whieh 46.3 percent are in prisons throughout the world. This is to Judge Alan Kay: Shame on you for not knowing about our Hawaiian Kingdom and our Queen Lili'uokalani. Our Hawaiian Kingdom has given a lot of aloha to all who have made it their home. We did not forget about you. Have you forgotten about us? The death sentence is against the Hawaiian. Stop it. Richard L. Chong is of Hawahan ancestry and this death sentence on him is illegal. Richard K. Taylor 'Aiea