Neko_Shiroi
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- 3 Mar 2007
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Neko Shiroi said:...I have a very low tolerance for people who don't think decisions through...
I would like to apologise for the former post. I have had a chance to sleep on it, and I truly regret it.
Death penalty and life sentences are simply worthless. The penal system shouldn't be focused on retribution but on rehabilitation.
I may have come across as too harsh about the children, but in my experience, they have always been evil to me,
I am very much against the death penalty simply because we humans don't have the right to take away life. This is just very barbaric...eye for an eye....
People like this exist, so it is not a hypothetical question.
How do you rehabilitate a person that doesn't want to be rehabilitated?
Once again playing devil's advocate here, personal beliefs and feelings aside as well.
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you mother was raped and murdered by someone for no reason what so ever? What justice would satisfy you?
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What if it was your kid?
If one is concluded to be rehabilitated, you have as much protection from them as you have from everybody else. There are already experts on these matters, I'm sure you already heard of the parole commission. And if they aren't rehabilitated, they shouldn't get out at all no matter how much time they are in prison.Now then hideaway made this post with the comment that
Ok then what does society do with serial killer's or rapist's? What do we do, or what protections do we have from them if they are released after a period of rehabilitation back into society and kill or rape again? How do you protect society from people like this? What rehabilitation will work?
People like this exist, so it is not a hypothetical question.
You don't.How do you rehabilitate a person that doesn't want to be rehabilitated?
Everybody here knows that such people exist. The question is if one is willing to lump them together. I'm not. Once again this is a discussion of principles, Obeika.
Committing capital crimes is pathologic.
You contradict Yourself this time.
If one is concluded to be rehabilitated, you have as much protection from them as you have from everybody else. There are already experts on these matters, I'm sure you already heard of the parole commission. And if they aren't rehabilitated, they shouldn't get out at all no matter how much time they are in prison.
You don't.
Thanks for your reply as well.
The world's worst speler and typist, please read what I wrote and not how I wrote it.
I don't quite follow your thinking. Can you explain it?Then doesn't rehabilitation become retribution?
No, it doesn't. By society you are refering to who exactly? Angry mobs don't have rights.Doesn't society also have a right to expect retribution towards those that commit crimes that the laws of society have deemed to be henious enough to merit either incarceration or even in extreme cases death?
Fees and community services seem a pretty good way to me.How does a crimminal pay his or her debts to society for not only the crime but the physcological damage that their crime caused to happen?
Actually no, they don't have the right to kill/emprision someone else based on their feelings. That's not how a human life should be measured.What about the victims? Don't they have any rights at all?
... Angry mobs don't have rights...
That is why riots and angry mobs shold be shot on sight.
Water cannons are for wussies.
I don't quite follow your thinking. Can you explain it?
No, it doesn't. By society you are refering to who exactly? Angry mobs don't have rights
Fees and community services seem a pretty good way to me.
Actually no, they don't have the right to kill/emprision someone else based on their feelings. That's not how a human life should be measured.
If you read my previous post you will see I did already ask this...thank you for your honesty.And before you ask, no, I wouldn't say the samething if someone killed my family, I would probably want the murderer's head. It is only human to want revenge, but that doesn't mean it is the right thing to do.
After his arrest, Endo was initially sent to the Kofu Family Court because he was a minor when the crime was committed. But the family court sent him back to prosecutors. He underwent a psychiatric evaluation and was deemed mentally competent to stand trial. Under Japan's Penal Code, arson of a dwelling in which a person is present can also be punished by death. In the trial, Endo said he committed the crimes as the elder daughter, who attended the same high school, refused to go on a date with him, which made him feel "desperate and angry." He also said he was discontent with his relationship with his parents. Throughout the trial, he offered no apologies for his acts and denied any intention to appeal the ruling, saying he did not want to return to normal life. Prosecutors had sought the death penalty, saying the defendant was fully accountable in light of his deliberateness and planning of the criminal acts. They said the girl and her younger sister suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
There are no legal regulations regarding when a prisoner is told about the timing of their execution, and the notifications are delivered in accordance with Ministry of Justice practices. Until the 1970s, the notifications were apparently delivered the day before the sentence was carried out. However, the government revealed that it had switched to a same-day system following the suicide of an inmate who had been told they would be executed the next day. Based on this, Presiding Judge Noriko Yokota stated that informing inmates on the day of their execution "has a certain rationality in order to stabilize the sentiments of death row inmates and to ensure a smooth execution," as well as maintenance of order in penal institutions. She did not make a constitutional judgment. The ruling first noted that any claim that there is no obligation to submit to execution with on-the-day notice should be dealt with in a criminal trial, which assumes current execution practices. As for the two death row inmates, the judge ruled that "they are obligated to accept the executions under the current system." And in light of Article 31 of the Constitution and other provisions, the ruling stated that the court cannot conclude that the plaintiffs have a position or benefit such that they can avoid accepting execution.
Presiding Judge Noriko Yokota stated that informing inmates on the day of their execution "has a certain rationality to stabilize the sentiments of death row inmates and to ensure a smooth execution," as well as maintenance of order in penal institutions.
Do they at least wait until all appeals are completed?
According to Article 475 of the Japanese Code of Criminal Procedure, the death penalty must be executed within six months after the failure of the prisoner's final appeal upon an order from the Minister of Justice. However, the period requesting retrial or pardon is exempt from this regulation. Therefore, in practice, the typical stay on death row is between five and seven years; a quarter of the prisoners have been on death row for over ten years. For several, the stay has been over 30 years (Sadamichi Hirasawa died of natural causes at the age of 95 after awaiting execution for 32 years).
In Japan, until the 1970s, the date of execution was announced to the condemned prisoner before the execution. However, because there were cases of death row inmates committing suicide before the execution, the method was changed to one or two hours before the execution to ensure the emotional stability of the inmate.
Furukawa stepped down the following month and was succeeded by Yasuhiro Hanashi, who was sacked three months later by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida over remarks widely seen as making light of his role in authorizing executions of death row inmates. The justice minister is a "low-key" position and it becomes "a top story in daytime news programs only when stamping a seal on documents of execution," Hanashi told a political gathering in November 2022, days before his dismissal. [...] Japan's system of capital punishment has drawn international criticism for its lack of transparency regarding the timing of executions, with death row inmates typically notified just hours before. But only 9.0 percent of respondents said the death penalty "should be abolished" in an opinion poll conducted by the Japanese government in 2019, while 80.8 percent said its existence "could not be helped." The death sentences of 108 inmates had been finalized as of the end of June, according to the Justice Ministry.
Citing the case of Iwao Hakamata, an 88-year-old man who spent nearly half a century on death row before being acquitted in a recent retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder, the panel's report said, "Once a mistake occurs, it takes a very long time to correct it." The panel, set up in February with the Japan Federation of Bar Associations serving as its secretariat, also said abolishing the death penalty system is an international trend. Japan and the United States are the only Group of Seven industrialized nations still handing down capital sentences. The European Union, which bars countries with the death penalty from joining, has been vocal in calling on Japan to review its stance. At the end of 2023, 144 countries had abolished the death penalty in law or practice, according to the human rights organization Amnesty International, which has also urged Japan to end the system.
Executions were suspended for about three years and four months from November 1989, following four cases where death row inmates were acquitted in retrials. After resuming in 1993, executions were carried out almost every year, with only 2011, 2020 and 2023 having none. The most recent execution was on July 26, 2022, after then Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa ordered the execution of then 39-year-old Tomohiro Kato, who had been involved in a massacre in Tokyo's Akihabara district. However, Yasuhiro Hanashi, who succeeded Furukawa as justice minister, was dismissed in November 2022 due to inappropriate remarks about the death penalty. His gaffe, along with its aftermath, led to his successors, Ken Saito, Ryuji Koizumi and Hideki Makihara, not ordering any executions. Current Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki only took office in November 2024.
The survey was conducted between October and December 2024 targeting 3,000 people aged 18 and over, and valid responses were received from 1,815 people, or 60.5%. The polling method was changed from interviews in previous surveys to mailed questionnaires. Although the questions remained the same, the Cabinet Office noted that they cannot make a simple comparison with previous results. According to the results, the most common reason for supporting capital punishment, with multiple answers allowed, was "the feelings of crime victims and their families cannot be appeased" at 62.2%. This was followed by "heinous crimes should be paid for with one's life" at 55.5% and "abolishing the death penalty would lead to an increase in atrocious crimes" at 53.4%.