I don't feel like I've heard the word "weak heart" in a long time...
In a number of social cases in South Korea and South Korea last year, the perpetrators tried to reduce their punishment under the pretext of "weak mind", which caused a big discussion about the definition of "weak mind".
This year, the "weak mind" gradually faded out of people's vision, until the recent killing of two sisters in Karatsu City, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea, and the perpetrators tried to evade punishment under the pretext of "weak heart".
According to the Chungnam Karatsu Police Station, at about 10:30 p.m. on June 25 this year, a murder occurred in an apartment in Matsuyama-myeon, Karatsu City. Suspect A (33 years old) strangled his girlfriend B, hid in the home of his sister C, who lived in the same apartment, and killed C X who was returning home from work in the early morning of the next day.
After that, a stole C's vehicle, designer bag, credit card and other items to the Ulsan area, and there was a traffic accident and escaped on the way.
(a video recording of a driving escape)
A used C's credit card to withdraw 5.8 million won in cash, and it is reported that the credit card password was learned through threat c.
In the days after the two sisters were killed, a also used the victim's mobile phone to reply to text messages, creating the illusion that the victim was still alive, resulting in the victim's family failing to find out the death of the daughter in time, until a week later, the police received a family alarm and arrested A.
In the course of the prosecution's trial of the case, A claimed that he was a weak mind and accidental crime caused by drunkenness, and constantly turned in a confession in an attempt to reduce his sentence.
In response, the victim's mother uploaded a petition in the Petition section of the Blue House, asking for the disclosure of a certain identity information.
This is a "full-text petition" dividing line
On June 25, 2020, the second daughter and her boyfriend had an argument after drinking in the self-catering room. My boyfriend was furious at my daughter's drunken temper and accusations, so he rode on my daughter who was asleep after getting drunk and strangled my daughter to death with both hands. The guy deliberately choked my daughter by the neck after she fell asleep.
Then, in order to kill my eldest daughter, he infiltrated the eldest daughter's house, who lived in the same apartment. He entered his eldest daughter's house through a small window and waited in the cottage for her to return. At about 2 a.m., the eldest daughter came home from the bathroom after taking a shower, and he pounced on my eldest daughter from behind, grabbed the child's neck with his left hand, covered the child's mouth with his right hand, dragged the eldest daughter into the house, and then pressed the eldest daughter to the bed. After taking the eldest daughter's mobile phone, bank card, password, car and other belongings, he brutally strangled the eldest daughter.
In this way, my two daughters were unfortunately killed. He used my daughter's phone and pretended it was my daughter who replied to the text message. Because we were deceived by the prisoners, we found the children's bodies a long time later. I couldn't even hug my daughters because I saw their bodies after maggots and rotted.
While running away, the guy used my eldest daughter's money to play games in internet cafes and even made micropayments for games, showing a boldness that the average murderer can't do. As if that wasn't enough, he was planning to invade the restaurant run by my eldest daughter, only to be caught by the kitchen aunt calling the police.
He used my eldest daughter's money to play games and planned to rob her restaurant, but now he has changed his attitude and wants to get his sentence commuted through a letter of repentance.
The criminal had previously been prosecuted without detention on suspicion of theft, robbery, etc., and was currently undergoing a first instance trial. He concealed this from approaching my daughter, and my daughter was killed for arguing with her lover.
Now, the guy who killed my two daughters has been saying that he is weak and submitting a letter of repentance, just to reduce his sentence!
Now I live in hell every day. Although I traveled back and forth to the court every day to file a petition in the hope of a strong penalty, by December 2020, the court's first instance judgment had not yet ended, and I asked for his identity to be made public, and the court again refused because of human rights issues.
Why not disclose the identity information of this vicious robbery murderer? Wouldn't that have happened if he had been severely punished and managed for robbery in the first place?
As long as I live, I will make the perpetrators sentenced to death! My life was shattered after the tragic murder of my two daughters, and only when he was sentenced to death did I have the face to go to heaven to see my two daughters.
If you are also a person with a daughter, if you are also a person with sisters, even if it is not, please assume that this is your own business, please do not ignore it. Please help me, please help me, please help me not to happen again.
Dear President, because of the severity of the punishment of perpetrators and human rights issues, the social debate is now fierce. ShouldN't I take this opportunity to sort it out? Always "next", "next time" until when! This question cannot be postponed any longer! Please let them be severely punished and don't have other victims!
Thank you all for reading this long article.
Just by reading this text, we can feel the heartache of this mother. If a criminal with a previous conviction kills someone, but may have his sentence commuted for ridiculous reasons such as "weak heart", what person would not be angry about it?
"Weak mind" refers to a state in which the ability to distinguish things or determine meanings is weak due to physical or mental disabilities, and considering that people's ability to be responsible in a weak state of mind is reduced, their punishment may be mitigated according to The Korean Criminal Law. When the perpetrator is deliberately or negligently causing a weak mind, the provisions on conduct applicable to liberty for reasons are not mitigated.
Therefore, in South Korea, when the offender commits a crime in a "weak mind" state, it is usually judged that the responsibility is low, so the sentence will be reduced in law. Therefore, the controversy over "weak mind" in South Korea has been repeated.
The majority view is that perpetrators of vicious crimes are not getting the punishment they deserve.
Not only that, but the criteria for judging "weak mind" are not clear, and some argue that this provision is not being abused, and whether this law born to protect the weak is putting the victim in trouble.
In 2018, when there was a killing in an Internet café in The Jiangxi District in South Korea, the whole people were angry because their killers claimed that they were "weak-minded". At that time, the number of petitions on the Blue House petition board that "punishment cannot be mitigated on the grounds of weak heart" exceeded 1 million, and the National Assembly also introduced a criminal law amendment, the Kim Sung-so Law (named after the suspect in the Jiangxi District Internet cafe incident).
Under the Act, the provision 'reduced punishment for weak mental reasons' was amended to 'mitigating'". Previously, if the offender was found to be weak-minded, the sentence had to be reduced unconditionally, but now it is up to the judge to decide whether it is necessary to reduce the sentence.
The law is a little bit of improvement and progress, and I hope that in this case, we will not let the "weak mind" become the protector of the offender again!