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[–] JackDark@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

*Watches in American*

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Jajcus@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago

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 points 1 month ago

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