US EditionProsecutors Seek Death Penalty for Ex-President Yoon Over Insurrection
Prosecutors argue Yoon led a violent insurrection by imposing martial law in December 2024, seeking the death penalty despite South Korea's decades-long execution moratorium.
- On Tuesday, independent counsel Cho Eun-suk demanded the death sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol on rebellion charges tied to his December 2024 martial law imposition at a Seoul Central District Court hearing.
- Removed from office last April, Yoon Suk Yeol, former President, faces criminal trials over his short-lived martial law episode and other scandals in South Korea.
- Prosecutors say the central allegation is that Yoon Suk Yeol, former President, directed a rebellion, while the December 2024 martial law order provoked dramatic scenes with lawmakers, including members of Yoon's ruling party, voting down his decree in the assembly hall.
- A verdict is scheduled for February at the Seoul Central District Court on Yoon Suk Yeol, former President.
- Yoon Suk Yeol, former President, has defended the decree as a desperate yet peaceful attempt to raise public awareness about the danger posed by the liberal opposition Democratic Party, calling the opposition-controlled parliament `a den of criminals` and `anti-state forces`.
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In South Korea, the prosecutor's office has applied for the death penalty for the deposed President Yoon.
Yoon Seok Yale was described as the leader of a mutiny that was trying to hold power.
South Korea prosecutor seeks death penalty for ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol over martial law
Yoon shook his head and appeared to chuckle when he heard the sentencing request, while some of his supporters in court also laughed or even muttered expletives, prompting the judge to call for order.
Prosecutors seek death penalty for former South Korea president
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol could face the death penalty if he is convicted of raising a rebellion in the country.Prosecutors reportedly asked the court for the death penalty on conviction, eschewing the alternative option of life imprisonment, according to international media.Yoon was removed from the presidency in April 2025, some months after he attempted to impose martial law on the country in December 2024.READ MORE: Clint…
The indictment alleges that the ex-mandatario used the Armed Forces and the Police to alter the institutional balance, in an unprecedented judicial process in the Asian nation, whose judgement will be known on February 19.
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