It's business," he said. Attending a special committee on the budget and settlement of the National Assembly on the 30th, Minister Han told reporters, “The death penalty has not been executed for a long time, and the law enforcement facilities have been abandoned like ruins.
It has been pointed out that inmate behavior is erratic, with prisoners assaulting correctional officers." Earlier, the Chosun Ilbo reported that Minister Han had recently announced four prisons across the country with execution facilities.
It reported that he had instructed the official agency to "inspect the execution facilities." When asked, "Are you premised on actually executing the death penalty?" Han said, "There have been no executions in 25 years.
However, no previous government has explicitly decided not to carry out executions. Executions must be decided after careful consideration of the criminal policy function of the death penalty, the public's legal appraisal, and the domestic and international situation.
It's a major problem," he said. He added, "There has been no change in the past, and the execution of the death penalty in the Republic of Korea is legal, and the government insists that the death penalty should be retained.
``The public will want to maintain the law and ensure that the manner of execution (of death row inmates) is to a level that the public can accept.'' Minister Han proposed 'life imprisonment without parole' as an alternative to the death penalty
Regarding the death penalty, he clarified his idea to promote it regardless of whether the death penalty is retained. He added, “In the United States, there are many states that implement life imprisonment without parole along with the death penalty.
Therefore, it is not impossible to have both because we can choose."
2023/08/30 21:17 KST
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