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Capital punishment is a legal form of punishment in South Korea and people are sentenced to it, recently on April 21, 2009, when Kang Ho-sun was convicted for the murder of ten people. But the capital punishment has been not carried out since 1998, when the late President Kim Dae-jung came into power. Most recently where 23 people put to death on 31 December 1997.[1]
Kang Ho-sun was convicted of kidnapping and killing eight women between 2006 and 2008, and of burning to death his wife and mother-in-law in 2005. Kang, 38, was arrested in January over the murder of a female college student, and later confessed to killing and secretly burying seven other women. [2]. Other death row inmates includes Yoo Young-chul and members of the Chijon family, a former gang of cannibals.
The South Korean Government confirmed in September 2009 it would not execute people sentenced to death in the past or in the future. http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/374472.html
The method of execution is/was? hanging[citation needed].
Notes
- ^ "South Korea must not resume use of the death penalty". amnesty international. 16 February 2009. http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/south-korea-must-not-resume-death-penalty-20090210. Retrieved 11 September 2009.
- ^ "Korean killer gets death penalty". BBC News. 2009-04-21. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8011560.stm.
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