Cho Seon, who was arrested on charges of swinging a weapon at passers-by in Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, killing one person and seriously injuring three others, is being transferred to the prosecution at the Seoul Gwanak Police Station in Gwanak-gu, Seoul on July 28 last year./Joint reporting photo
Chosun, who committed the ‘Don’t Ask’ stabbing incident at Sillim Station in Seoul, was sentenced to death in the first trial. The prosecution emphasized, “As long as the death penalty is constitutional, it is the judge’s responsibility to sentence the person to death when the maximum punishment is warranted.” The prosecutor who was seeking the death penalty for Chosun also cried while mentioning the victims who died and were injured in the deadly attack.
At Chosun’s decision trial held on the 10th at the Seoul Central District Court’s Criminal Division 32-2 (Presiding Judge Cho Seung-woo), the prosecution requested the court, “Please sentence Chosun to death and order him to be fitted with an electronic location tracking device for 30 years.” On July 21 last year, Chosun was indicted on charges of stabbing a 22-year-old man whom he had never met several times with a weapon to death in an alley near Sillim Station in Gwanak-gu, Seoul, and attacking and seriously injuring three men in their 30s.
The prosecutor in court on this day said, “I also live near Sillim Station, but this incident gave (citizens) fear that they could be murdered in the middle of the city in broad daylight.” “Costs were wasted,” he pointed out. He continued, “Joseon’s crime was a crime of murder with extreme disregard for life, in which an unspecified number of people were killed at random,” and “Multiple murders were meticulously planned and executed out of anger and inferiority complex.”
According to the prosecution, the surviving families of victims killed by Joseon submitted approximately 200 petitions, calling for severe punishment. It is said that the two victims who were injured in the knife attack and saved their lives were not even investigated by the investigative agency due to extreme shock and trauma.
The prosecutor also said, “It is questionable whether we should take seriously the claim that Cho-sun, who continued to stab only the fatal part with an 18.5 cm blade, did not intend to kill the victim,” and added, “The defendant, who wrote the phrase ‘Please help me reduce his sentence’ in his reflection, “This is my first time seeing it,” he scolded. In October last year, Chosun asked the court, “Please reduce the sentence even just a little. He is said to have submitted a written reflection saying, “Please help me reduce my sentence just once.”
In his final statement, Chosun calmly read what he wrote on paper and repeatedly apologized to the victims and their families. The court decided to conclude the trial on this day and sentence on the 14th of next month.
2024-01-10 07:42:17
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