Social Affairs
Repeat offender gets commuted life sentence for robbery-murder
June 23, 2023
The Seoul High Court on Friday has commuted the death sentence of a 54-year-old man who robbed and murdered a woman, as well as killed an accomplice. The man, Kwon Jae-chan, has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being given a death sentence in June 2022. The appellate said in a ruling that evidence to prove that his murder was premeditated was insufficient, while acknowledging that he had intended to rob the woman. In December 2021, Kwon brutally choked the woman, whom the murderer was a