Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1897 — Penalties After Death. [ARTICLE]

Penalties After Death.

Posthumous punishment is to be inflicted on the murderers of the late queen of Corea. The two ministers whe issued the decree reducing her to the rank of ordinary people and who made the king cut off his top knot were put to death when the king took refuge the Russian legation at Seoul, and their bodies were horribly mulllated. The law department has now been directed to take the proper procedure whereby the “extreme penalty” may be administered to the two dead traitors,