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"The death penalty is an issue that will live as long as monsters and murderers, living with the knowledge that they can torture, abuse and murder people, remain hidden within the human society, because a weak and impotent society is unable to cope with their brutal behaviour. Each of the victims of these monsters had the same right to life as all of us, until the moment when they crossed paths with such a monster, a criminal who condemned a person, in order to satisfy a perverse pleasure, to his or her fate without any right to mercy or defence. The Constitutional Court of Korea has delivered an opinion that the death penalty does not conflict with the Korean Constitution. Legal status has been thus practically evaluated. That the political elites in Europe, in our name, have abandoned this path does not mean, however, that we have become better people or that our society is more humane. No. The horrible, brutal monsters’ killing of decent people in Europe, just like in Korea, did not stop. The only difference is that the European monsters do not have to worry about capital punishment. Ladies and gentlemen, I respect our model based on the European Convention on Human Rights, but I believe that before we impose it on the outside world we should make sure that there really is a better solution for decent people, and that..."@en1
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