Prosecutors again sought the death penalty on appeal for a man in his 30s who killed a woman out of malice after she reported him on suspicion of a sex crime.
At the appellate sentencing hearing on the 27th before the criminal division 14 of the Suwon High Court, presided over by senior judge Heo Yang-yoon, for A on charges including retaliatory murder under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes, prosecutors asked, as in the first trial, for the death penalty.
Prosecutors said, "The defendant meticulously prepared the crime, such as obtaining the victim's address through a false civil lawsuit and attaching a GPS tracker to a vehicle," adding, "The risk of committing additional crimes is very high if returning to society."
They also sought to grant an electronic monitoring order, which was dismissed in the first trial, saying it is necessary to prevent additional crimes, and requested the order be imposed even if the life sentence is maintained.
A is accused of fatally stabbing with a weapon B, a woman in her 30s whom A had known, in the underground parking lot of an officetel in Suji-gu, Yongin, Gyeonggi, at dawn on Aug. 21 last year.
It was found that A decided to retaliate after B filed a complaint in May of the same year accusing A of a sex crime. A filed a false insurance claim lawsuit against B and B's spouse to identify their residence and then carried out the crime.
In the first trial, A was ordered to life imprisonment and 20 years of sex offender registry information submission. The appellate ruling will be delivered on Oct. 15.