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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in North Korea.It is used for many offences, such as grand theft, murder, rape, drug smuggling, treason, espionage, political dissent, defection, piracy, consumption of media not approved by the government and proselytizing religious beliefs that contradict the practiced Juche ideology. [1]
According to former guards who have defected from North Korea, in the event of the Kim Family Regime's collapse or in the event of another crisis in North Korea, they were ordered to kill all political prisoners. The immediate murder of approximately 120,000 North Korean political prisoners would constitute a genocide. [23] [citation not found]
South Korea: 31 December 1997 [144] 23 people including Kim Yong-je, Lee Sang-su and Lee Young-gil murder, terrorism: hanging: C Sri Lanka: 23 June 1976 [4] Chardradasa Jayasinghe: murder: hanging: D Syria: 2 February 2022 [145] Mohammed murder: hanging: D Taiwan: 1 April 2020 [146] Weng Jen-hsien arson / murder: firearm: C Tajikistan: April ...
List of foreign nationals detained in North Korea; List of heads of state and government who were later imprisoned; List of longest prison sentences; List of longest prison sentences served; List of people sentenced to more than one life imprisonment; List of prisoners released by Israel in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange
Prisoners sentenced to death by North Korea (1 C, 3 P) Prisoners who died in North Korean detention (1 C, 3 P) Documentary films about detention in North Korea (2 P)
Illegally entering North Korea [17] Aijalon Gomes: 25 January 2010: 26 August 2010: 213 Illegally entering North Korea [18] Eddie Yong Su Jun: November 2010: 28 May 2011 ~208 "Committing a crime" against North Korea [19] Kenneth Bae: 3 November 2012: 8 November 2014: 735 Unauthorized religious activity [20] [21] [22] Merrill Newman: 26 October ...
Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death.The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution ("being on death row"), even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists.
Kaechon concentration camp (also spelled Kaech'ŏn or Gaecheon) is a prison in North Korea with many political prisoners. The official name is Kyo-hwa-so (Reeducation camp) No. 1 . It is not to be confused with Kaechon internment camp (Kwan-li-so Nr. 14), which is located 20 km (12 mi) to the south-east.