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Seoul (ANTARA News / Yonhap-OANA) - Over 80 percent of South Koreans favor the death penalty and want more that 50 prisoners had been sentenced to be executed in the country, according to research institute poll of the ruling party on Sunday.

The results of a survey conducted through telephone interviews on Friday by Youido Institute of 3049 adults across the country, clearly influenced by the rape and murder of a 13-year-old boy in the port city of Busan, southern South Korea.

Last week police arrested Kim Kil-tae, 33, who has made two previous rape, the murder of the girl.

According to the survey, 83.1 percent of respondents said the death penalty is necessary to prevent such barbaric crimes, while 11.1 percent opposed it for reasons of human rights and the remaining 5.8 per cent in doubt. "Margin error" reached 1.77 percent.

Poll results came out about two weeks after the Constitutional Court which consisted of nine men a fatwa issued five to four that the death penalty does not violate the state constitution.

South Korean court issued the death penalty was not carrying out executions, but since February 1998 when the Kim Dae-jung, a dissident who was sentenced to death in 1980 but later pardoned, became president of South Korea.

About the fate of the 59 prisoners who had been sentenced to death, 91.4 percent said they do not allow execution would have violated the law, according to the survey.

The survey results were released after Ahn Sang-soo, the Grand National Party leaders of the ruling, calling for the execution of the prisoner.