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Camp Casey (Korean: 캠프 케이시) is a U.S. military base in Dongducheon (also sometimes spelled Tongduchŏn or TDC), South Korea, 40 miles (64 km) north of Seoul, South Korea. Camp Casey was named in 1952 after Major Hugh Boyd Casey , who was killed in a plane crash near the camp site during the Korean War.
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.
A Provisional Irish Republican Army member was sentenced to death for murder before abolition was extended across the UK. European Union human-rights protocols signed in 1999 abolished the death penalty in EU nations, but the UK is no longer an EU member. [18] 1998 Mahmood Hussein Mattan, convicted and hanged 1952, conviction quashed 1998. [19]
none since independence on 26 July 1965 [4] A Mongolia: 2008 [131] [132] D Myanmar: 23 September 2024 [133] Maung Kaung Htet and Chan Myae Thu terrorism: hanging: A Nepal: 1979 [134] D North Korea: August 2024 [135] 20-30 party officials Corruption and dereliction of duty unknown method D Oman: 22 April 2024 [136] 3 unnamed men murder: firing ...
Casey is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. [8] Shortly after his death, the 1st Corps Reserve training area in Korea was named Camp Casey in his honor. [9] The Hugh B. Casey memorial Award was established in his honor for the "most outstanding soldier of the 7th Infantry Regiment" of the 3rd Infantry Division. [10] [11]
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
In 2009, juicy bar owners near Camp Casey who had political muscle, demanded that U.S. military officials do something to prevent G.I.s from wooing away their bar girls with promises of marriage. [95] In June 2010, U.S. forces started a program to search for soldiers who had left and abandoned a wife or children. [18]
Camp Nimble was a US military facility located in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, across the Chuncheon River from Camp Casey. Closed and returned in July 2006, it was home to the 2nd Infantry Division's A and B Companies of the 702nd Main Support Battalion .