- Yoon Suk-yeol is charged with organizing a rebellion against the constitutional order by attempting to impose martial law in December 2024
SEOUL – South Korea’s special counsel has requested that former President Yoon Suk-yeol be sentenced to death in his rebellion case, Yonhap reported.
The country’s Criminal Code provides for three types of punishment for trying to lead a rebellion, those being the death penalty, life in prison, and life imprisonment without forced labor.
Yoon Suk-yeol is charged with organizing a rebellion against the constitutional order by attempting to impose martial law in December 2024. A court verdict in his case is expected in early February. The death penalty has not been applied in South Korea since 1997.
BY: The Times Union
