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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in South Korea. As of August 2023, there were 59 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.
In South Korea, the law continues to provide for the death penalty for drug offences, although it currently has a moratorium on capital punishment: there have been no executions since 1997, but there are still people on death row, and new death sentences continue to be handed down.
In the South Korean context, a re-evaluation for listed drugs is a practical policy instrument that can make a major contribution to the rationalization of drug spending. In addition, the impact would be significant as it would affect the list and prices of new drugs, as the listed drugs could become the comparators for new drugs in the economic evaluation.
The use of drugs in South Korea is a lesser offence; however, there are still drug related offences in South Korea. Most of the drug related offences occur in the Gangnam and Yongsan Districts. In 2013, there were 129 drug related crimes reported in the Gangnam area and 48 drug related crimes reported in the Yongsan area. [citation needed]
China has executed two Filipinos for drug trafficking despite high-level Philippine government appeals to commute their death sentences to life in prison, the Philippine government said Saturday.
Death penalty for murder, drug trafficking, arson, piracy, terrorism, kidnapping, recidivism of aggravated offenses punishable by life imprisonment, leading an armed group that engages in spreading disorder (such as by sabotage, pillage or killing), espionage, treason and perjury causing wrongful execution. [296] [297] Pakistan: 2019 [298] 20+ n/a
Google Korea's most popular domestic searched terms for 2019 included Jung Joon-young ranked at number two over-all, and number one for top public figure; with Burning Sun ranked at number three for domestic news and issues. [260] Yonhap News Agency editors selected the scandal as one of the top ten South Korean news stories of 2019. [261]
Philippines: 4 January 2000 [140] Alex Bartolome: child rape: lethal injection: D Qatar: 21 May 2020 [141] Anil Chaudhary murder: firing squad: D Saudi Arabia: 17 February 2025 [142] Mohamed Nur Hussein Ja'al drug trafficking: public beheading: D Singapore: 7 February 2025 [143] Unnamed man drug trafficking: hanging: C South Korea: 31 December ...