SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon has ordered correctional institutions to inspect their execution facilities for proper maintenance, sources said Wednesday. Han made the instruction last week to four correctional institutions that house execution facilities, including the Seoul and Busan Detention Centers, and the Daegu and Daejeon Correctional Institutions, the legal [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A rising number of South Koreans are advocating for the reinstatement of the death penalty following a series of violent crimes that have occurred in the past 30 days. Since its last execution on Dec. 30, 1997, South Korea has not carried out any death penalties, although handing out [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Leaders of seven religious orders in South Korea on Thursday urged the Constitutional Court to abolish the death penalty in their first joint opinion on the long-held dispute as the court was to hold an open hearing on the punishment. In the written opinion submitted to the court a [...]
INCHEON, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A district court handed down a rare death sentence Thursday for a 53-year-old man for killing a woman for money and murdering an accomplice in December last year. The man, Kwon Jae-chan, was charged with robbery and corpse abandonment in the double murder case after allegedly strangling the 50-something [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has for the first time voted in favor of a United Nations resolution calling for the suspension of the death penalty, the justice ministry said Wednesday. The resolution at the U.N. Third Committee, which oversees humanitarian issues, expresses concern about the continued execution of the death penalty [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — For Chang Seong-hwan, the fact that his wife became the victim of a murder eight years ago is still a deep emotional wound that cannot be healed with the passage of time. Attending a hearing on the death penalty arranged by the national human rights watchdog in May, Chang [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean civic and religious groups on Thursday called for a complete abolition of capital punishment in the country, where a debate over the issue occasionally emerges in the aftermath of serious crimes. “We need to cut the vicious circle of violence, in which horrendous punishment is used against [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — About one out of every two South Korean people is in favor of implementing existing death penalty provision, a poll said Monday, although the country is classified as a de facto abolitionist country in the international community. South Korea has executed no one since the end of 1997, when [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A public performance was held on Wednesday night outside Seoul City Hall, with lighted words such as “abolish death penalty”, “life”, and “peace” reflecting off the building and the adjacent green space, Seoul City Hall Plaza. The event was arranged by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea, marking the [...]