Yoon Suk Yeol: S Korea prosecutors seek death penalty over failed insurrection attempt

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6vyqq5r0do

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JackDark@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 223d

*Watches in American*

the_q@lemmy.zip · 31 pts · 223d
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Deebster@infosec.pub · 17 pts · 223d (4 replies)

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.

halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 223d (3 replies)

Or... They also remove the moratorium to drive the point home.

Jajcus@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 223d (2 replies)

Which would mean they are moving in the wrong direction. Death penalty is a tool of totalitarism, not a characteristic of a healthy democracy.

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · -2 pts · 223d (1 reply)

Eh, traitors and fascists can hang IMO. Would you have sentenced Hitler to life imprisonment? I think some deserve to hang.
That sad I know jack about the former south korean president, so I won't comment on if he should live or die.

belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 223d

Yes. Yes I would. Hitler killed himself, he didn't want to be captured and imprisoned. Let him rot in a little tiny cell.

Or just give some Holocaust survivors an hour with him every day.

desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 223d

this should’ve happened in the US as well, but half the party are sycophants, bound to the cult