
Japan’s Minister of Justice has developed a novel argument against the death penalty – criminals die anyway, so why kill them?
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The ancient Chinese execution method known as “death by a thousand cuts,” or in Chinese as Ling Chi or Leng T’che, which as the name suggests involves slicing apart a live criminal, is documented in the grotesque yet fascinating photographic record reproduced below:
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A serial killer who preyed upon members of an online suicide club, suffocating them to death in order to gratify himself sexually, has been executed by hanging.
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In order to allow executions of young girls to comply with Islamic law, Iran has guards “marry” them the night before they are due to be killed in order to deflower them and render the killing legal and holy, sources report.
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Hundreds gathered to witness the execution of a Yemeni pederast by gunshot to the head, in what looks to have been one of the most entertaining spectacles on offer in the tiny Arabian republic.
The condemned was found guilty of raping an 11-year-old boy and then murdering him and cutting up the corpse for disposal, which will doubtless restrict sympathy for his humiliating fate.
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A woman who killed four with poisoned curry, including a ten-year-old boy and a sixteen-year-old girl, and sickened a further 63, has been sentenced to death.
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Necrophile child eater and apparent otaku psychopath 宮﨑勤 / Tsutomu Miyazaki, who was hanged recently after languishing on death row for ten years, apparently spent his years in solitary confinement reading manga and watching anime, it has been revealed by a recipient of his letters.
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