S.Korea - the men they didn't hang

A politician, Yoo In-Tae, once on death row himself, has tabled a bill to abolish capital punishment. Opposition activists in the 70's were threatened with hanging for political offences but now that experience is driving a new attempt at restricting the death penalty more from The JoongAng Daily...Two previous attempts, in 1999 and 2001, have failed but it's up for a third attempt this week. The proposed, more humane, alternative is life imprisonment (for life that is) more from Arirang TV News...