The court in the South Korean city of Incheon (west of Seoul) issued a ruling. death sentencethe first failure in the country since 2019, for a 53-year-old man who killed two people last December.
Incheon District Court counted a person by name kwon jae changuilty of strangling an acquaintance of his who stole her jewelry and her debit card, which she used to withdraw money from an ATM, leaving her lifeless body in the trunk of a car, and the murder of an accomplice the next day, whose corpse was buried in the mount.
The court argued that kwon jae chan He has shown no remorse and appears to be unable to “regain his humanity,” so the death penalty will prevent him from committing another such crime, the agency said. Yonhap.
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this is the first death sentence issued by a court in the Asian country since November 2019, when Ahn In-deuk, a man who set fire to the building he lived in and stabbed five of his neighbors to death as they tried to escape the building, was sentenced. located in Jinju (435 km southeast of Seoul).
Anyway, South Korea it has not carried out a single death sentence since 30 December 1997 and is considered a “de facto” abolitionist state.
However, the law still allows conviction and the prosecution usually requires it, especially in cases of death of a minor, and about 60 people are on death row in the Asian country today. (EFE)
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