In the past 25 years, 12 people have died before being executed... 59 people remain on death row in South Korea.

It has been revealed that over the past 25 years, 12 death row inmates in South Korea have been sentenced to death, but their sentences were not carried out and they ended their lives as unexecuted prisoners.
According to the Ministry of Justice on the 30th, from 1998 to June of this year, death row inmates who died for reasons other than execution, such as illness or suicide,
There were 12 people in total. One death row inmate in 2021 and 2019, two in 2015, one in 2011, four in 2009, two in 2007, and one in 2006 were found to have chronic illnesses in prisons or detention centers.
etc. died. Lee, a death row inmate (age 70 at the time), who died from a chronic illness at Seoul Detention Center in July 2019, was charged with murdering a man he suspected of having a common-law relationship with his wife, and damaging and abandoning his body in 1999.
He was sentenced to death in February 2016 and was kept in prison. The number of death row inmates whose sentences were commuted during the same period is 19. Their sentences were reduced to life imprisonment under Article 55 of the Penal Code (legal reduction), which reduces sentences according to legal provisions.
or the sentence was commuted to imprisonment for a period of not less than 20 years and not more than 50 years. Excluding those who died and those whose sentences were commuted, there are currently 59 people remaining on death row. Four of them were sentenced to death under military criminal law.
It is controlled by the military. The most recent criminal sentenced to death was Lim Former, who in 2014 opened fire at the Army's 22nd Division General Outpost (GOP), a forward unit, killing five of his colleagues. im former corporal
was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court in February 2016 and is being held in a military prison. Just before that, a college student in his 20s brutally murdered his ex-girlfriend's parents, then imprisoned and sexually assaulted his former lover.
A certain death row inmate, Naochan, was sentenced to death in August 2015.