SOUTH KOREA. HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL TO ADVISE REPEAL OF DEATH PENALTY

members of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) reached a general consensus that the South Korean government should abrogate capital punishment. The government panel convened a session of all members to discuss the matter after a group of lawmakers recently presented a bill aimed at introducing a life imprisonment system without parole instead of abolishing the death penalty to the National Assembly. 
Although they differed on complementary measures, all 10 members of the advisory body virtually agreed that capital punishment should be eliminated, a commission member said. “Life imprisonment without parole could be harsher than the death penalty,” said Lee Hae-hak, one of the members.