dantheclamman@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 hours agoYoon Suk Yeol: S Korea prosecutors seek death penalty over failed insurrection attemptwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down10
arrow-up167arrow-down1external-linkYoon Suk Yeol: S Korea prosecutors seek death penalty over failed insurrection attemptwww.bbc.comdantheclamman@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 hours agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareDeebster@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 hours agoThere’s been a moratorium on executions in South Korea since 1998 (the last executions being in 1997), so this won’t happen - the alternative for a guilty conviction is life imprisonment.
minus-squarehalcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 hours agoOr… They also remove the moratorium to drive the point home.
minus-squareJajcus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·54 minutes agoWhich would mean they are moving in the wrong direction. Death penalty is a tool of totalitarism, not a characteristic of a healthy democracy.
There’s been a moratorium on executions in South Korea since 1998 (the last executions being in 1997), so this won’t happen - the alternative for a guilty conviction is life imprisonment.
Or… They also remove the moratorium to drive the point home.
Which would mean they are moving in the wrong direction. Death penalty is a tool of totalitarism, not a characteristic of a healthy democracy.