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S. Korea keeps death penalty on the books
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February 26, 2010, Friday
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SOUTH Korea's highest court upheld the death penalty yesterday, 13 years after the last execution and a national debate on whether to scrap capital punishment led to a suspension.
The Justice Department has put a stay on death row cases since 23 were executed at the end of 1997, in deference to a parliamentary debate on the statutory repeal of capital punishment that year.
A fisherman convicted of killing four tourists at sea in 2007 brought the appeal to the Constitutional Court, saying capital punishment infringed on the constitutional guarantee of human dignity.
The court in a five-to-four decision said the constitution allowed for the death penalty and it would be an over-interpretation to say its provision on the right to life superseded capital punishment.
The court needed a six-judge majority to scrap the death penalty.
The Justice Department has put a stay on death row cases since 23 were executed at the end of 1997, in deference to a parliamentary debate on the statutory repeal of capital punishment that year.
A fisherman convicted of killing four tourists at sea in 2007 brought the appeal to the Constitutional Court, saying capital punishment infringed on the constitutional guarantee of human dignity.
The court in a five-to-four decision said the constitution allowed for the death penalty and it would be an over-interpretation to say its provision on the right to life superseded capital punishment.
The court needed a six-judge majority to scrap the death penalty.
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