Nearly 150,000 South Koreans have backed a demand by three sisters to have their father executed for the brutal killing of their mother, in a case highlighting the country's lax punishment of domestic violence.
The trio's mother was stabbed to death by her ex-husband in the car park of her apartment complex last week after years of physical abuse.
"Our father is a heinous criminal who must forever be isolated from society," the daughters said in a petition filed on the website of the presidential Blue House.
"We are petitioning for him to be sentenced to death to prevent further victims."
"Counselling cannot be punishment."
"Whenever that happened, we had to move."
"He brought a knife, some tape and ropes and threatened to kill us."
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