The captain of the Sewol was sought the death penalty on October 27_th. He faced a felony count for crime of murder as he defaulted to take measures to rescue passengers at the accidental sinking of the Sewol happened in southwest of Korea.

Right all, this accident occurred off the coast of Jindo. There were 475 passengers including 325 high school students. Consequently, only 172 were survived, and 295 were died, and 9 passengers are still missing. Eventually, one missing passenger was found on October 28_th, 102 days to the day since last missing passenger was found. The ferry sank below the ocean’s surface in 4 hours after the ferry began to lean.

There are several reasons to cause this worse accident such as overloaded, sharp turn and problems of ship’s hull and operating company. At the time of the accident, there was announce repeatedly to wake passengers to stay in ship. However, the captain including crews escaped instantaneously without saving passengers.

Two days after accident, on April 19_th Supreme Court pursue 331people in court, and 139 were arrested on five areas such as breach duty as rescue, safety management and so on. Finally, on October 27_th, the captain was sought the death penalty, three of first mates were sought the life imprisonment and rest of 11 people were sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison. Moreover, it is extremely unusual for Korea to enforce the death penalty, and it hasn’t been enforced for 17 years.

Some people agree with the death penalty, but also some people think it is so inhumanity. I also disagree with this judge. Sometimes, and especially in worse situation, people can’t take perfect action, and people who were not in such situation don’t have rights to blame people. The first thing they should do is to elucidate the cause of accident and be fully prepared for never cause such a sad accident any more.