한말~일제 초기 형사법의 추이와 사형제의 변화

From the end of the Korean War to the early days of Japanese colonial rule, we will examine the process of change, such as the enactment and revision of criminal laws and execution, that is, what procedures and methods were applied and how many people were executed. Since modern times in Europe, the death penalty has been carried out not as a cruel punishment, but from the perspective of 'dismissal of the right to life' regardless of status or status. The execution was carried out behind closed doors with less pain and physical damage. In 1898, the Korean Empire government strengthened the death penalty by experiencing the Independence Association movement and coup plot. In 1905, the 『Criminal Code(刑法大全)』 , which can be formally regarded as a modern criminal law, was promulgated. From the perspective of the death penalty, the death penalty was improved by accepting criticism from domestic and foreign public opinion and criminal law scholars, abolishing the beheading and unifying it by hanging, but it is characterized by not only moving the death penalty provisions of the 『Ming code(大明律)』 as it is, but also adding the death penalty provisions enacted by the new law to further strengthen the death penalty. At this time, the death penalty was a perfect return to punishment and the realization of absolute monarchy. From the Gabo Reform (1895) to the Korean Empire (1909), the number of executions totaled 1,189, with 17 beheading and 1,72 hanging.