One of the execution chambers where Japanese death row inmates are hanged has been revealed to the public for the first time.
The pictures are a result of the current justice minister’s decision to grant journalists access – she is a staunch opponent of the death penalty, although she has nonetheless authorised and witnessed executions as part of her official duties. She intends to review the practice.
The Tokyo execution facility made public is one of 7 nationwide.
Prisoners are executed by hanging, with a carefully calculated drop through a trapdoor designed to break the neck of the prisoner, giving something approaching an instant death.
The execution chamber is decorated much as a conference room might be, but directly below is the drop room, a much more utilitarian area. Both areas are visible from a viewing gallery. The metal rings visible in the pictures are for securing the rope.
The trapdoor is dropped by one of 3 switches, which are pressed simultaneously by 3 guards so that no one knows who directly triggered the execution.
This is a method similar to that used in some firing squad executions (only one firer will be given a rifle with a live round) so that nobody knows who fires the fatal shot, although experienced shooters can generally distinguish between live rounds and blank rounds, so this perhaps owes more to a sense of plausible deniability than anything else.
Prisoners can say their prayers before a golden Buddha.
Executions in Japan are now solely of suspects convicted of multiple murder charges, or those who murder under particularly aggravating circumstances, and public support for the practice remains high.
Japan has almost a hundred death row inmates, many of whom have been awaiting execution for years, and they are generally executed at a rate of less than half a dozen each year. Conditions for death row inmates are said to be particularly harsh.
The circumstances surrounding the executions themselves are particularly noteworthy – each execution must be personally authorised by the minister of justice, and the approval of the executions is shrouded in secrecy, with executions often timed to ensure minimal public attention.
Prisoners themselves hear that their execution has been scheduled a few hours in advance. Families, legal counsel and the media only hear about the execution after it has occurred.
The number of executions carried out based on false convictions is not known, but a number of those sentenced to death but not actually executed have been declared innocent after a retrial, and sufficient doubts have remained about others on death row to dissuade ministers and courts from actually scheduling their execution – some in fact have died of old age waiting to be executed as a result of these doubts.
Nothing is known about the rate of botched executions in Japan, but in the unusual event that a prisoner’s neck is not broken by such a fall they can usually be relied upon to be strangled to death by the noose. A drop which is miscalculated can also cause decapitation – again there are no recent public records of this.
In other countries it is common for executioners to informally finish off prisoners who survive the initial drop by some means.
Secrecy about the practice ensures no records of botched Japanese executions exist, but there is the famous case of a 31-year-old farmer sentenced to death for committing the crime of arson during a rice riot in 1872, near the beginning of the Meiji Restoration and just after Japan had begun introducing western style hanging and criminal justice.
He was hanged, but after the corpse was claimed by his relatives moaning was heard from the coffin – he had revived, despite being declared dead in an autopsy. He was taken back to his village, and soon reported to the authorities.
Reasoning that as the execution had already been carried out, and referring to practices where sovereigns would grant clemency to those who survived executions, the court’s verdict was that “as the condemned has already been hanged once, he shall not be hanged again – he is to be restored to the family register at once.”
He is said to have lived either to 1898 or to 4 years after the execution, though perhaps as a result of injuries sustained in the hanging he was a changed man and lived his life out in solitude in a hut. Nobody was punished for botching the execution, but three officials resigned out of shame at their failure.
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looks like you'll have a swinging time visiting that joint, pun intended
Coming from a country where the death penalty and the army were banned ages ago, I digress from the death penalty. But I must admit that they had the taste to make those chambers actually look like a good place to die in.
I'd rather die than get ass-raped in prison for the rest of my life.
If you got to prison, that's what you deserve.
Lets see you say that when your framed.:3 I'll plant the evidence.
My views on this have changed. I have been enlightened. You shouldn't be killed for your crimes. You should be sent to the deepest part of the Pit of Tartarus and get ass raped by its Demons. Suffer for your crimes!
I don't know. Death by hanging sounds like there's way too much space for failure. I mean, it seems like most societies that still employ the death sentence want to make the actual process as quick and painless as possible.
I don't like the death sentence at all. Sure, there are people out there who'd definitely deserve to be put to death but still, there are way too many falsely accused prisoners out there. I always imagine being framed for something i didn't do and would end up in such a crazy situation. It's horrifying. Most criminal cases aren't crystal clear and many times there's still a lot of doubt.
It just takes one biased judge or prejudiced jury to screw an innocent persons life.
I'm all for indefinite lock-up for severe cases. That still leaves room for rolling up certain cases again.
Surely only one of the firing squad members have a blank. Hoping that that one bullet would kill the condemned reliably would be foolish.
A skilled shooter can easily hit a vital organ 99% of the times from 10-20 meters. You only need a few real bullets to guarantee certain death.
Yeah. That's why they have for example, 4 guys with real bullets and one guy with wax bullets. Not 4 guys with wax bullets and 1 guy with real bullets, as Artefact claims.
Also, guns malfunction like any other machine.
Watching people get hanged. Wonder how many times these people have to visit the shrink every week.
I see there fetish for ropes are still there.
There are much better times and places for it though. *browses cinemagic.co.jp [http://ch.cinemagic.co.jp/st_en/index.php?main_page=products_all] site*
Killing someone is not "Justice".
Kira thought it was, but look at how he ended.
As with any work of fiction, you should take the conclusions with a grain of salt. The ending in DN represented it's author's opinion and like all opinions, it's subjective.
I have a bad news for you: there is no "Justice" at all.
Somebody call Amnesty International because that taste is walls is cruel and unusual punishment.
Oh no you dinn't!
For real though not even 100? The Great Nation of Texas has over 300 folks on death row. The Japanese are such amateurs at government sanctioned murder.
Taking in the information that Japan's leading cause of death is suicide, I don't think that I'm all that surprised that it's death penalty method is how many suicides are performed.
@ Bowen 22:45:
Zetsuboshita!
Hah, so true... I wonder if the review into the practice will decide to change the method of execution to suffocation inside of a parked car...
"Death Room".
Sakujo, sakujo, sakujo, sakujo, sakujo, sakujo, sakujo, sakujo, sakujo, sakujo, sakujo, sakujo...
SAKUJO!
:-D
sack a jew
Do you mean Paul Sack (a Jew)?
I've always wondered why murderous criminals don't get put to death,instead they spend life in prison being taken care of by taxpayer money with free health care to boot.Being in prison is still bad,but it seems more like an inconvenience rather than a punishment when you consider the crime they did.A really expensive one.
Look at the first picture! It's the ghost of a hanged convict! Oh, wait... It's just the reflection of the photographer... =P
Anyhow, I didn't even know they had executions in Japan.
Most of the world, other than china, isnt like Texas.:P
Three American guards at the death-buttons...
Commander: "One, two--"
Guard 1 pushes his button; the Commander, Guard 2 and Guard 3 turn and stare at him.
Commander: "Smith, what in the hell did you do that for?!"
Guard 1/Smith: "I... I thought we were going on 'two'."
Guard 2: "I thought we were going going on 'four'."
Guard 3: "Idiots! We go on 'three'. We ALWAYS go on 'three'."
~~~~~
Three Japanese Guards at the death buttons...
Idol: "Se, no!" (the guards press their buttons simultaneously)
The guards and the idol bow to the Commander, who bows back.
All bow in the direction of the corpse.
The Commander, the Guards, and the Idol line up and walk through a door into a little room with a table in the center of the room.
They sit down around the table, and an aide brings all of them a beer.
The death penalty is a sure sign the country using it is uncivilized and barbaric.
There is nothing else to say to that...
Circular logic.
死刑執行の期日が、死刑囚本人に秘されていることは良
く知られているが、執行人である拘置所職員にも秘密に
されている。 以前は、職員には前日に通知されていた
のだが、そうすると、当日「体調不良」などで欠勤する
職員が 相次いだため。
執行人の人選は、全くのランダムであり、基準は設けら
れていない。ただ、「妊娠中の妻がいる職員」「身内に
慶弔事がある職員」は除外される。執行の時間は９：３
０頃とされている。誰の刑が執行されるのかは、死刑囚
を迎えに行く時までわからない。
刑を終えた一同は、拘置所内の食堂にて「無言の昼食」
をとる。メニューは「とんかつ定食」と「缶ビール１
本」。なぜか、決まっているらしい。「無言の昼食」と
書いたが、別に無言の取り決めがあるわけではなく、自
然に無言になってしまう。
その後、職員達は「５６００円」の「死刑執行手当て」
を現金手渡しで受け取る。（銀行振り込みでは、家族に
知られてしまうため。）午後からの業務は免除され、帰
宅を許される。
50 bucks for killing someone?
life sure is cheap on the Island
Holly crap! The Matrix code!
8-O
really... paid in cash to oversee an execution because you dont want your family to know? sounds like a suspicious under the table drug deal or something...
and to think that in the USA, its more expensive to execute a criminal than to keep them locked up for life...
where's the seppuku chamber?
Y'know, If it wasn't for the possibility of being killed/arressed by the police, I wouldn't mind tying you up then skinning your family infront of you.
Slowly removing the eyes and brain and heart and force feeding you them.
The slowly cutting pieces of your body off and feeding that to you.
The at the end cooking you in a massive oven alive and then eating you.
And I don't even have to worry about a death penlty, becuase as we know, they don't work do they.
Don't forget to eat his/her (whoever you are writing to) liver with some soybeans.
;-D
hmm i just watch the 2nd episode of Mr. Brain and this was this guy(Gackt) who got executed with a trap door same as this. hmm scary O_O
death sentences is just stupid. why the hell isn't death help centers allowed? so you have to go kill a bunch of people to end your life in the most easiest way.
The Penalty itself does nothing to improve the situation. Even if it was a mass murderer, the chances are that he will rot in jail for the rest of his life, and everyone will forget about him/her after some time. To decrease crime rate in the first place, the society has to do 2 things: 1- raise awareness of penalty (whichever that may be) and 2- provide a large enough verification of behavior (like policemen, security personnel, surveillance...). If the people know that some sort of behavior is not allowed (1.) and they get the feeling they will found out eventually (2.) logic says, they wont commit the crime. There are always mad people who do it anyways, but they are sick and to be treated.
Wow, so your solution to crime, rather then make conditions in life well enough where people would not WANT to commit crimes, is to enforce a police state?
Just go move to North Korea.
Crime is always due to a cost/benefit ratio I would say. You can increase the cost by means of what you call a 'police state', or you can lower the benefit(of crime) by better life conditions otherwise around. I would recommend both at the same time.
And no- I don't wanna have a state like NK.
All these stupid ways of executing people...hanging, electrocution, poison gas, complex three-stage lethal injections. Vets quietly, gently, and effectively put to sleep thousands of animals every day with a massive overdose of barbiturates. It's simple, it works, and it's (except for the prick of the needle) painless. Of course the usual suspects claim being jabbed with a needle is "cruel and unusual punishment." You know, like you suffer through every time you get a blood test.
BTW, a proper hanging does not kill instantly by "breaking the neck." Weight going onto the spinal cord pulls the brainstem and medualla oblongata down into the foramen magnum, crushing them.
It seems to me people these days like to defend and care more about the criminals than the victims.
It seems that way only because it facilitates complaining.
The case of a school girl found in a concrete filled drum whose body where burn was also bore torture wound. I think there's movie but I didn't watch it because of the description it's too much horrifying I thinks the suspect didn't get death because they were minor at that time.(or maybe they're family are influential) instead they get a life imprisonment, what a useless law that Japan has that time.
Look at the wood paneling in that execution chamber. That room looks nicer than most of the apartments I've lived in.
Isn't it simply to die for?
that's horrible. the prisoner should at least get a jerk off right before he suffocates to death so he gets that "high".
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I just find it so sickeningly ironic that there are those that would condemn others to death for the crime of murder - as if one act justified the other.
Man to the executioner: "What are you doing?"
The executioner: "Why I'm killing this man."
Man: "Why?"
Executioner: "Well, he murdered someone."
Man: "Oh, I see. So once your done killing him, shall I kill you, too?"
Executioner: "Why on Earth would you do that?"
Man: "You are killing that man, right?"
Executioner: "Yes, I told you that."
Man: "And you're killing him because he killed someone?"
Executioner: "I already said that. What's your point?"
Man: "If we kill those who kill, surely you too should be killed? After all, you're about to kill him."
Executioner: "Well, yes, but he started it!"
Flawless logic right there. Flawless.
The murderer of murderers are just that.
Your logic assumes that killing cannot, under any circumstances, be justified, which I would not agree with.
No, his logic assumes that killing somebody because they killed somebody is illogical because you are then justified to be killed.
Let's set up a situation where a man killed my daughter. Blinded with rage, I kill this man. Most people at this point would think to themselves "this is justified", but it's not. Let's say that man had a son, and his son kills me now because I killed his father. Is his son wrong? Well, no, but he was just as right as I was.
A eye for a eye leaves the world blind.
I would. The person who was killed is already dead and won't be brought back. Vengeance solves nothing.
His logic assumes that killing someone for killing someone cannot, under any circumstances, be justified. I would not agree with that statement.
Hmm they should make the lower room a kareoke room and rent it out for halloween party's and mid way through when they least expect it activate the hatch with a sex doll on the end of the noose.
The chance of executing an innocent person is one of the main reasons why I am for getting rid of the death penalty.
Another one is that no group of people is better than any one person when it comes down to it, and they do NOT have the right to say that someone 'deserves to die' unless they are going to cede that same right to that person.
That's a little freaky...
BUT:
It is a lor better than the Ones we had in the UK!
"Executions in Japan are now solely of suspects convicted of multiple murder charges, or those who murder under particularly aggravating circumstances, and public support for the practice remains high."
This is a good practice. I'm all for it. Generally I'm against death sentence they way the USA handle it, but it certainly is punishment fit for the vilest scum. For those a life sentence just isn't enough.
Better than the executions being done in f**king China
How can one put a value on another's life? So, the other person the individual killed didn't warrant the death sentence, but combined those two lives equate to the killers? I fail to see the logic there.
There is also the slight logical problem that if you refuse to put a value on a human life, you're for all intents and purposes assigning a value of $0.
In any case, it's not that odd to put value on a man's life, not even today in western societies. My health insurance policy says that if I die before my best before date comes to pass, from any cause other than suicide, my next of kin will receive several grand.
@ Anon 23:45
"How can one put a value on another's life?"
They used to do it in Europe and, I believe, in the Scandinavian countries.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/wergild
"How can one put a value on another's life?"
ever watched a western? XD
And do you know why they call it the lawless west? so much for deterence.
I think it's generally stupid. You could get some cheap organs, do experiments on them or other actually useful stuff. Just letting them go to waste in prison or by killing them off is plain stupid.
Prisons are basically the proof of human incompetence to rehabilitate criminals. Said criminals are the indications of a sick society. Cure society and solve all those problem at once.
There are two factors that support criminality in our society. Having no money at all and having too much money. If you don't have money and do not have the possibilty to earn it, chances are, you'll do something considered a crime. On the other hand, if you have too much money, you could get bored and do criminal stuff out of fun.
There are other factors, too. It's possible to cure society, but people that have the means to do, don't have the will and people with the will to cure don't have the means. Sad story.
harvest their organs? experiments? really now.
With any discussion of criminal justice, out come the creepy sadists and their puerile revenge fantasies...
@Artefact
Nah, I have no right for revenge...Only punishment and reminders...
The Way of the Pyramid Head...
But I'm also a businessman, so that plays a factor...
We could also throw them into an arena and watch them killing each other off,.. of course we selled tickets to the 'fight' and made millions in the process. We'll call it gladiatorial games. Then again, experimenting is probably the better choice. And if you're waiting for a heart,.. you might as well take the heart of a murderer.
@Chen-04
Gladiator matches is a no-no since they will damage valuable organs and test subjects...So yeah, experimenting is THE only choice...
But only on those who really, really deserve it...
Otherwise...We execute them by good old-fashioned 'snoo-snoo' with monster girls...
My money-making method is both merciful and pleasurable for the death row inmates...
Better than a prayer or a last meal, I'll tell you that much...
They'll be coming and going at the same time in the (death) throes of pleasure...
That reminds me...
There's a new Silent Hill game coming out next year about about a death row inmate in an Otherwordly Prison...Of Silent Hill~
Silent Hill "8":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BVXG_lxpnM
I'd rather use their organs to save lives than give it to some maggots at the cemetery...
Let them die with dignity, harvest their organs, and then save people with said organs...
Most criminality is caused by defects in the criminal. Like a complete and utter lack of empathy, or an excess of greed, or a lust for power. Most of these things are innate and until we can screen embryos for those traits there's nothing society can do to fix that.
Yes, there are people who are genuinely poor, but they generally try to work hard and live frugally to fix their situation, rather than see if they can steal some stuff.
The argument that criminals are just bored rich kids is even more stupid; a psychopathic killer doesn't maul out of boredom and has no particular need for money to accomplish his goal. And insofar as rich people use their resources (time, money) for evil, they tend to do so completely legally.
There are good reasons to get rid of monetary extremes, but tackling criminality isn't particularly high on that list.
Execution and recycling chinese style? Something like that is only possible in countries with fashist government types. That said, it could work in Russia or the USA.
Thumbs up.
Criminals are still human beings even after they've committed crimes and lost their freedom... Who are YOU to play with human lives as if they were toys, and experiment on prisoners just for the benefit of the rest of us?
Cruel, insensitive people like you should all move to China. Their justice system is just right for you.
Before you start to condemn him for 'playing with lives' (i.e. stating his opinion on the subject matter), you should first tell that to the people in Academy City who made those expendable Biribiri clones and that d*ck-wad, Accelerator who killed over 9000 of your onee-samas...
All those wasted biribiri clone armpits...That will never be sniffed, licked, or creamed on...
*sighs*
At least this guy is thinking about resources (organ harvesting and giving their body to science) instead of outright killing cute clones just to 'level-up'...
If I die, I would be more than happy to donate my organs...
I can save a life that way, whether I am a criminal or not...
In a way, a small chance at redemption before leaving the mortal coil...
I hope my donated organs end up in the body of a cute girl...
Don't be so naive, Kurok--er, kyosak...The government is thinking the same thing...
Resources should not be wasted...
For the most vilest of death row inmates...Let the organ harvest and experimentation begin...
Because killing them is so much better right?
Call me an asshole if you want, but if I have to kill one man (ok, person you femi-bitches) in the prospect of saving 100, I would in a blink of an eye.
If I am cruel for wanting to improve my own species by sacrificing a few individuals then so be it. Just remember that the next time you or one of your intermediate family needs a life saving surgery.
@Anonymous 01:17 30/08/2010
Amen to that...
Collateral damage and statistics is what society is all about...
Taking an infected part of society away and disposing of it is the reason we are still here...
If we let all the dangerous criminals live, then it will create a society of fear...
How would you like to know that a mass-murdering killer is on your neighborhood after being freed from jail by pro-life, naive individuals..?
If you are a concerned person, you would rather see said killer die...
Kill the killer before he kills you...
That is survival instinct...It is in all of us...
Forgiveness and mercy can only go so much, but when something is taken away from you like a loved one because of your naivete about morals and ethics, then you will know...
That is why we have Judge, Jury, and Executioner in society...
This isn't the witch hunts or the holocaust anymore...No more draconic mass killings of heretics or people with different religions and sexual practices (except if you are in the middle east)...
This is the modern era of 2000 and beyond...
Chen-04 is merely stating that we should harvest the organs of said killers upon their deaths...
In a way, they will 'contribute' back to society...
Give me all the negative votes you want...
When your own survival is on the line, I guarantee you will throw morals and ethics outside the window...
One minute you want to save this killer from execution, but the very minute he tries to kill you after he is out of prison, you seek his death like the rest...
How many of us can say that we will never succumb to our survival instincts..?
It is in OUR genes at moment of our creation...
Morals and ethics are just ingrained to us by our parents...
But that survival instinct and self-preservation is IN us all before all that...
It is human nature...It is in our genes for self-preservation...
You know this to be true if it all comes down to survival, protection, modernization and social improvement as a whole...
not all criminals can be rehabilitated some of them are genetically defunct and could never be rehabilitated...idiot
Is it lonely up there on the internet, on your pedestal, in your room? No doubt you offer so much of value to society. Perhaps your organs would be of more use to the world than you could ever be in life?
I already am an organ donor, it's the obvious thing to do. Also, I am against prisons in general, but I acknowledge the need for them. Only.. if you kill them off anyway, you might as well get the best out of it. I don't like Godwins law all that much but you know, _they_ did it. Efficient germans. Though, they aren't allowed to anymore, due to historical circumstances, I think.
ie; "Fill out an organ donor card and go kill yourself"? o_0
It's called Sci-Fi because of the fiction. Science Fiction. In those machines get emotions. God, is there anything more stupid than machines with emotions? If the machine isn't doing what you wanted them to do, you're doing it wrong.
Also, there should be more people like Azure Xuchilbara. People that think logically. One should respect life, but damn, if you're going to kill them off anyway... what's the difference?
note: I am against death penalty, prisons and people that think they must decide how others live.
Righteously said, Chen-04...
Let their organs save the people who need them, rather than let it all go to waste in some cemetery...
Being dead doesn't mean you can't give back to all the pain and suffering you caused to society...
Before one dies, we should donate one's organs and bury/cremate the rest...
It is the most logical and resourceful thing to do...
Let's just hope said organs don't end up inside people with ill intentions towards others...
There Sci-Fis warning how organs influence people. Perhaps there are studies on how transplantees change their behaviour.
But aren't death penalty in the US done with cyanide or poison which would invalidate the organ donation? A bullet or high voltage to the head would preserve the lower body organs.
"Crimes against humanity" lol
murderers, serial killers, and other really sick people are not human anymore, those should be treated like beasts they didnt respected the life of the victims we shouldnt respect a killer. we pay way to much taxes feeding them while they do nothing in most of the prisons, and a lot of them are impossible to rehabilitate since they are FUBAR'ed
robbers and other minors crimes can be rehabilitated they are minor crimes for something
also indeed society is sick, we are used to the easy life, we should fight for our things, many of us forgot the words "work hard to eat" and go to the easy way,the education system helps and make even more sick the society since its doesnt crave morals on childrens nor the parents do that either in many homes.
oh god dammit i wrote a letter =o
fuckin A dude
Treat them like poultry and livestock then...
Turn them into meat to feed the poor and harvest their organs after they get executed to compensate for all the lives they took...
That way, they will still get back at society for all the damage they did...
Maybe even save the lives of people needing organ transplants...
Let them save lives after their deaths...Through organ harvesting...
aye, harvesting organs is a good idea, you can save quite a lot of people with one man.
but eating them its kinda... not my style
For me life sentence would be a lot worse than death penalty.
I've thought that as well, but have you ever considered what a prisoner on death row might go through every day of their lives?
Just constantly waiting for that day to come, knowing you will be executed eventually but not sure when... If you're from a civilized country the process will likely take many many years... What a mental torture.
Maybe you might find a purpose in life within prison with a life sentence... Surely plenty of time to reflect on mistakes... It's a tough call which sentencing I might favor. Both are pretty damn shitty IMO.
Humans are resilient, they'll put it away to the back of their mind or they'll make peace with it and live until the day the announcement comes then worry.
Ie. There are a lot more nukes being sold on the black market; living in range of a nuclear power plant; stepping out of the bath tub; choking on a pretzel; killed by being knocked into the edge of a soft tofu.
yes only stupid god fearning people think death is worse the life in prison. when you die you're free form any suffering.
The modern way of execution is way better than those of past times..., no town square to display the convict and put him/her to shame before they do him in, no mob jeering at the convict which can further intensify his probable humiliation and today's method don't involve bloody spectacles that were introduced way back that were meant to deter would-be criminals.
Even if it's a justified killing of an individual, at the very least today's methods allow the death-row inmate to live with his dignity and privacy intact...
Oh god, There is a ghost in the first picture!
It's one of the executed haunting the place. ^_^
@KrazedLumberjack 23:02:
I don't care about the convict's "dignity and privacy" -- s/he's a convicted murderer!!
I _am_ against public executions, because I think the mob/bloodsport mentality is detrimental to society.
How is that better? That just shows how fucking pussified we've become. We can kill people; but let's make it clean. You know? Think about the children. They might grow up and believe that humans can be violent and despicable, we need to purge those ridiculous delusions at once.
Political correctness aside, fuck death penalties, no system run by authority should ever decide who should live or die. If you want revenge, do it your-god-damn-self.
Revenge is a silly irrational thing. An eye for an aye and the whole world goes blind.
"They might grow up and believe that humans can be violent and despicable" are the delusion that must be purged?
It is the other way around. People can get violent and despicable from anything.
It's a death sentence- whether they die by firing squad, hanging, or torture, whether they die with family members gathered around their bed or with crowds jeering at them, the end result is exactly the same- they're dead. Dignity and privacy are for the living, the dead don't care.
Taking that further, there's really no difference between a life sentence and execution. I don't know why so many people are opposed to execution (not counting cases where the accused is actually innocent, of course). The two are exactly the same- the end result is that the accused dies.
That said, it would probably be a better arrangement if the families of the victims had to be the ones to push the button. If they want the murderer dead, they should be the ones to push the button.
Actually a life sentence is worse than being executed as the incarcerated basicly sits in prison knowing he/she won't ever get out.
It seems that some people lose their sanity after a while.
Because paying for the trial is more expensive.
A life sentence can be cancelled and the prisoner let free if the court made a mistake, which happens more often than we might like to think. That's a pretty big difference from getting executed.
Also, being alive is quite a big deal compared to being dead for the guy sentenced. You'll die one day to, does that mean you could as well just die right now?
don't forget that a criminal does have family and loved ones and by executing the criminal you harm the family and friends while they are innocent. also people that are awaiting death so in death row are more keen to become crazy then people with life sentences but i'm also against life sentence.
killing a killer is still killing, how can you teach them that it is wrong to kill if you want to do actually the same thing
I'd be all for life sentences with optional suicide / excecution...
While the end result of a life sentence or execution is the same, a lot of people feel that it is wrong to keep the criminal alive and in good living conditions for the rest of his life, while his victims rot in their graves.
Why should I pay (as part of taxes) money to feed and clothe a man who killed my loved one?
supposedly they are for the most serious of crimes. in that case, they have no conscience of how or what they have done. then why should anyone else. in extreme cases the punishment should fit the crime. Saying that, they gave no concern to the dignity of there victim then they should receive none. DEATH ROW called that for a reason. you have been deamed worthy of the worst punishment society can bestow. I don't know how many other ways to say it. Let the bastard rot! get what you receive. I'll shut up now.
I like it too. Murder 2-3 persons and you get death penalty, send your citizens to die in battle and you get... paid for it. :)
I wonder why those approving DP never ask for it to be applied to men like Steve Jobs or other big politicians/capitalists who indirectly kill and enslave people all over the world.
Business is business, power is power, and the poor people always pay twice for their crimes.
The more I read your comments, the more I rage. How the hell do politicians/capitalists have to do with the criminal committing ah I dunno FUCKING crimes?. And you're over simplifying the cause of crimes as if being poor is the root cause for every crime. Also, with the Steve Jobs analogy, I hope you don't own a Mac.
Being too rich is also a factor, as stated before. Guess what, if you don't have the money to pay food, you get creative not to.. y'know.. starve to death.
No I don't own a mac however that can be applied to any of the top richest men on earth. Do you really think they made money by being good-hearted?
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/e-waste/
http://www.china-pix.com/multimedia/guiyu/
Wanna bet if I take a chinese in my house and force him to work in that conditions I'll go straight to jail?
Poor is not the root cause of every crime but most of them for sure. Just look at the statistics
http://www.pubdef.ocgov.com/poverty.htm
Kill people because you want to -> you're a murdering bastard.. kill people because someone else wants you to -> you're a hero...
No,
kill because you want --> murderer
kill because other pay you --> hitman
kill because your government pays you --> hero