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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]
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 squad: D Pakistan: 24 November 2019 [137] Brigadier Raja Rizwan: espionage and high treason: hanging: D Palestine: 20 July 2024 [138] July 2005 (Palestinian Authority) [139] 2 unnamed ...
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]
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)
An inmate on North Carolina’s death row who once pleaded with prison officials to carry out his sentence has died of natural causes. Allen R. Holman, who was convicted of killing his wife in ...
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 ...
He has since been released and allowed to return to the United States. According to the law of North Korea, such an act is punishable either by a life sentence in prison, or death. [4] In 2016, Otto Warmbier, an American college student, was arrested by North Korean authorities at Pyongyang International Airport, while ready to leave the ...