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Man Who Murdered Gwangju High School Girl Gets Life in Prison

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نُشر هذا المقال أولاً عبر Cedarnews.net. لمتابعة المزيد من الأخبار والتقارير الحصرية، زورونا على موقعنا. Man who murdered: Jang Yun-gi avoided the death penalty sought by the prosecution for murdering a student while attempting to rape her. A man who killed a. تم نشر هذا الخبر عبر موقع Cedarnews الإخباري. للاطلاع على مزيد من الأخبار العاجلة والتقارير الحصرية، زوروا موقعنا الرسمي.

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Nearly 100,000 citizens have submitted a petition calling for severe punishment against Jang Yoon-ki, who was indicted on charges of murdering a high school girl. The Gwangju-Jeonnam Memorial Solidarity demanded that the court impose the maximum legal penalty of death, and the bereaved family decided to continue one-person protests until the sentencing hearing.

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Ahead of the first-instance sentencing of Jang Yun-gi (23), who murdered a female high school student he had never met, the victim's family staged a one-person protest urging the court to impose the maximum legal sentence. On the morning of the 28th, the parents of the victim, Lee Chae-won, stood in front of the main gate of the Gwangju District Court and wrote, "My 17-year-old daughter, Lee Chae-won, is dead. The perpetrator is alive. One of th…

(Gwangju, Jeonnam = Yonhap News) Reporter Jeong Hoe-seong = The first trial verdict for Jang Yun-gi (23), who attempted to kidnap and then murder a high school girl for the purpose of sexual assault, will be handed down on the 30th.

·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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The first trial court, which sentenced Jang Yoon-gi (23), the ‘high school girl murderer,’ to life imprisonment, explained the reason for the ruling as the fact that the death penalty system has virtually disappeared in Korea.

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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Saturday, September 26, 2026.
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