ROUGH CUT, NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> <br />South Korean prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the captain of a ferry that capsized in April, in the trial of 15 crew who escaped the vessel before it sank.<br/> <br />The incident left 304 people, most of them school children, dead or missing.<br/> <br />The prosecution says Lee Joon-seok, 68, who has been charged with homicide, should be sentenced to death for failing to carry out his duty.<br/> <br />Lee is among 15 accused of abandoning the sharply listing ferry after telling passengers to stay put in their cabins. Four, including the captain, face homicide charges.<br/> <br />The rest face lesser charges, including negligence. A three-judge panel is expected to announce its verdicts in November.<br/> <br />Several people have been sentenced to death in South Korea in recent years, but none has been executed since 1997.
