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Korea death penalty

Yellow ribbons adorn portraits of South Korean students who died in the mid-April ferry disaster. South Korean prosecutors on Monday sought the death penalty for Lee Joon-seok, 68, the captain of the ferry that capsized in April, leaving 304 people dead o

South Korea considers the death penalty for the man who shipwrecked a ferry

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Six months after the ferry crash that killed nearly 300 people, among them many high school students, South Korea is considering executing the vessel’s captain. It would be the country’s first use of capital punishment in almost 20 years, but many South Koreans simply want to move on.

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