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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The system in Japan is... Let's say "interesting". You get sentenced to death, but you might still sit in prison for years or even decades until one morning they carry it out with no warning, so you'll live the rest of your life not knowing if each day is your last or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Wow, way to make you feel alive

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

TIL Japan still has the death sentence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Must be a lot less crime there then? Not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Often it is, but the death penalty isn't the only thing affecting it - if it did, USA would not be at such a high of a spot for intentional homicides (#55) as most states have the death penalty as well.

For reference, Japan is at spot 196 out of 207 when you sort by victims per 100000 inhabitants.

Which also results in very few people getting the death penalty - just 3 people were executed in 2022, and none last year. US executed 18 and 24.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Goodnight, inmate. Sleep well. Tomorrow I shall have to kill you."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

All executions are but yeah Japan is particularly so