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Nutmegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-07-07 02:19 AM
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Three prisoners executed in Japan
Source: BBC News

Japanese authorities have hanged three men, bringing the number of executions in the country this year to nine.

For the first time, the names of the hanged men were made public.

Previously, authorities would not release any details about executed men, in order to reduce the psychological damage to their families.

Human rights groups have been critical of the secrecy surrounding executions in Japan, one of the few industrialised countries to retain the death penalty.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7132048.stm


Bad enough that Japan practices this, but hangings ...?
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kurth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-07-07 02:23 AM
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1. Noboru Ikemoto, 75
WTF. Well, at least they're not using them as quality-control acceptance testing for samurai swords...
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-07-07 02:33 AM
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2. The Katana does not strike me as that barbaric
now the wakisashi use... during that execution...

I have a serious problem with the death penalty overall but given the Japanese culture does not surprise me that they still have
the death penalty.

And no, I am not justifying it...
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-07-07 03:11 AM
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3. Not much detail in the story.
Like what they did to merit it and what the process is in Japan.
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ingac70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-07-07 04:10 AM
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4. All convicted of mulitiple murders....
"Fujima was convicted of murdering five people, while Fukawa was executed for robbery and murder of two people. Ikemoto received a death sentence for killing three people and the attempted murder of another."

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/article_1379199.php/Japan_hangs_three_inmates_discloses_names_for_first_time
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-07-07 06:09 AM
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5. Well then they got what they asked for.
Later dudes.
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BushOut06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-07-07 08:00 AM
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7. It's state-sanctioned murder
Do you believe it's okay for one innocent person to be put to death, just as long as everyone else who commits heinous crimes is executed also? How can you ever be 100% sure of one's guilt? How many times have we seen people set free decades after the fact in this country?

Even when guilt can be determined rather sufficiently, why not merely incarcerate them for the remainder of their lives, with no parole?
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ingac70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-07-07 11:59 PM
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11. Because such people forfeit their right to live...
If someone confesses, or the evidence shows they absolutely did it, I could give a shit care less if they die, especially mass murderers.

No doubt our justice system needs alot of work, but I will not whine over genuine scum. Who is to say an asshole Governor might not come along, like Huckabee, and give them clemency or a parole recommendation, so they can go on to kill again?
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BushOut06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-08-07 09:56 AM
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14. If someone confesses? Really, that's all you need?
Do you know how many "confessions" turn out to be false? Just because someone confesses to a crime doesn't mean jack shit. There could be any number of reasons for someone to confess to a crime they didn't commit - police coercion, mental instability, etc.
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Brrrp Donating Member (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-08-07 06:54 AM
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13. All punishment is irrevocable. Not just the death penalty. nt
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Harper_is_Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-08-07 04:30 PM
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18. Your flippant response belies your ignorance about the effects of the death penalty.
But hey, maybe that's why you're getting the society you asked for.
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Algorem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-07-07 06:58 AM
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6. if you look like a whale they hang you
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crikkett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-07-07 10:40 AM
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8. how bigoted of you to say that.
racist language perpetuates racism.
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Algorem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-07-07 10:57 AM
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10. no comprende.
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fujiyama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-08-07 01:22 AM
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12. That was so wrong
:spank:

But I gotta admit, sorta funny.
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-08-07 12:09 PM
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16. ~
I was going to say something--but I'll pass

Along the lines of ask Captain Watson
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-07-07 10:51 AM
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9. Hangings, electric chair, lethal injection, beheading, what's the difference?

The person's just as dead one way or the other.
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psychopomp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-08-07 11:17 AM
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15. There is a difference and I believe hanging to be more ethical than
our American procedure for lethal injection.

I am against the death penalty for the most part, but if you are going to put a person to death hanging can be one of the better ways to go about doing so. A great deal of facts can be found here:

http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/hanging2.html
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JBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-08-07 12:21 PM
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17. Hanging was the only way it was done in Canada
All executions in Canada were by hanging. We used the "long drop" method, which ensured the neck was broken, and then the prisoner died of asphyxiation while unconscious.

The last Canadian execution was is 1962, and the death penalty was taken off the books in 1976.
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