Overview

• The Seoul Northern District Court delivered the verdict Tuesday and ordered a 30-year electronic location-tracking requirement.
• Kim Sung-jin, 32, was convicted of murdering a shopper in her 60s and of attempted murder against a woman in her 40s during an April 22 attack in Mia-dong, Gangbuk District.
• Prosecutors had sought capital punishment at a July 15 hearing, arguing he showed no prospect of rehabilitation.
• Judges condemned the repeated stabbing of an unsuspecting shopper and found premeditation, while noting possible auditory hallucinations as a factor in sentencing.
• According to the judgment, he used a knife taken from a store display and stopped the second assault after the victim pleaded for her life.