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The serial killer Chung Nam-gyu has been sentenced to death on charges of murdering 13 women in southwestern Seoul and the metropolitan area. The Seoul Southern District Court condemned the 37-year-old killer to death on Thursday. The bench said capital punishment was inevitable since he showed no remorse and was likely to kill again if he returns to society.
Asked for any last comment, Chung said, ¡°My life has been twisted in a strange way. This tragedy would not have happened if the government and society had helped me.¡± In his first trial in July, he said, ¡°I was just unlucky to get arrested. If I hadn¡¯t been caught, I would have continued killing people.¡± As prosecutors demanded the death penalty on Aug. 31, Chung said, ¡°I¡¯m not sure I feel sorry for the victims. I felt proud of killing such a large number of people.¡± But he reportedly said he is afraid to die.
Chung was convicted of killing 13 people and seriously injuring 20 in 24 assaults between January 2004 and April 2006. In March, he broke into a house in Bongchon-dong, Seoul where he hit the owner¡¯s three daughters with blunt objects, killing two of them.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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