The Cabinet on Monday proposed a bill introducing life sentences without the possibility of parole, a response to a series of heinous crimes in Korea, such as recent back-to-back stabbing rampages.
The top court finalized life imprisonment Thursday for a former Seoul Metro employee charged with stalking a female co-worker and murdering her in a public restroom at a subway station in central Seoul last year.
The number of stalking suspects apprehended by police has already exceeded 7,000 this year, police data showed Tuesday, indicating that the dangers of such crimes remain unchanged, though nearly a year has passed since the murder of a subway station worker by a colleague who had stalked the victim for years.
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