Japan: Cruel execution a stain on country’s human rights record (www.amnesty.org)

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Executions in Japan are shrouded in secrecy, with prisoners typically given only a few hours’ notice and their familes usually notified about the execution only after it has taken place.

Japan is one of a small group of countries that has carried out executions in recent years. Amnesty International recorded 1,518 executions in 15 countries in 2024 (excluding the thousands believed to have been carried out in China), an increase by 32% from the 1,153 recorded in 2023 largely driven by a spike in three countries in the Middle East – Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Wasn't that the guy that stabbed a bunch of school kids?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He picked up (in total 8) women on twitter, raped and killed them, and kept body parts in his apartment. He also killed the boyfriend of one of them. So 9 victims in total.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The people protesting don’t care about the victims except for the murderer whom they consider a victim.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

How does execution help the victims?

It sounds like you subscribe to a retributive justice point of view. It's not the only way people view the purpose of a justice system. These are not a simple ideas that can be dismissed in a single reductive sentence; they are complex ideas that are worth your time and thought. Please consider what you think the justice system is for, how it could be different, and why you have the ideas that you currently do.

(I'm not interested in a back and forth, I just think you are missing a lot of nuance with that response.)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

If done properly, it saves taxpayers money and limits idiots worshipping these shit stains.

At some point, it is about what's best for society.

With that being said, I have zero faith in any regime not abusing death penalty.

But this case is well deserved. And anti deaht penalty crowd are tone deaf.

Find an innocent man and shill his case.

PR 10

Is this the same amnesty that shilled Russian side of the war when Ukraine got invaded?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Timing on this is pathetic...

The only real issue with the death penalty is that innocent people have been murdered esp by the US regime that used death penalties for other purpose.

But nahh amnesty wants you to care about a guy who apparently murdered several people and there is not much question about the evidence.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Japanese police are infamous for getting confessions out of innocent people.

And their society is infamous for not speaking up about injustices.

With those in mind, I would not trust them one bit with deciding who should live and die.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's fair but is using this case for your case the right choice from PR perspective?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

The Japanese system of "Get up ur dyin today" is fucked (Since it can just happen whenever with only hours of notice), but its hard to be mad at this guy getting executed.

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