Capital punishment in South Korea
Legality and use of capital punishment in South Korea / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in South Korea. As of December 2012, there were at least 60 people on death row in South Korea.[1] The method of execution is hanging.
However, there has been an informal moratorium on executions since President Kim Dae-jung took office in 1998. There have been no executions in the country since December 1997.