In a seminar on the death penalty held in May, the...

In a seminar on the death penalty held in May, the Committee for Justice and Peace, which is under the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea, kicked off a lengthy war against capital punishment. Korean activist groups, including the Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Korea (A.D.Penalty, Korea), stated that Korea's legal system is ill-suited for carrying out just sentencing in trials concerning the death penalty. Roh Win-soo, a lawyer who served as a prosecutor at the Seoul District Prosecutor's Office until three years ago, is one of the many death penalty advocates. "It is absolutely essential to have a model for the fact that if I kill others, I should be killed too," the prosecutor turned lawyer said. "I think it would be unbalanced if a system cannot put people to death for their flagrant wrongdoings while individuals can do the same." Roh asserted that the dignity of human beings should be considered not only from the offenders' side, but from the victims' as well."