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Japan hangs 3 inmates for "extremely ghastly" crimes in first executions since 2019
cbs ^ | DECEMBER 21, 2021

Posted on 12/21/2021 2:33:31 PM PST by BenLurkin

Japan hanged three death-row inmates on Tuesday, its first executions in two years, amid growing criticism by human rights groups of the country's use of the death penalty. One of the three, Yasutaka Fujishiro, was convicted of killing seven people and setting fire to their house in 2004, while the other two, Tomoaki Takanezawa and Mitsunori Onogawa, were convicted in the 2003 killings of two pinball parlor employees.

Executions are carried out in high secrecy in Japan, where prisoners are not informed of their fate until the morning they are hanged.

Two death-row inmates recently filed a lawsuit against the government saying the system causes psychological distress and seeking compensation over mental suffering from living in uncertainty until the last day of their lives.

Most executions are also carried out long after sentencing.

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: capitalpunishment; deathpenalty; deathrow; executions; japan
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To: BenLurkin

So those of us NOT on death row suffer psychological trauma not knowing the day we will die? :-) lol


21 posted on 12/21/2021 3:33:59 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Larry Lucido
Tommy?

Who?

22 posted on 12/21/2021 3:56:17 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the left, truth is right-wing extremism.⭐⭐)
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To: Larry Lucido

Crazy fripper fingers


23 posted on 12/21/2021 4:00:06 PM PST by OwenKellogg (...if my people, who are called by my name...)
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To: BenLurkin
"...saying the system causes psychological distress..."


24 posted on 12/21/2021 4:01:40 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Vaquero
Geee they hanged them. Didn’t have to toy with the right batch of chemicals to make sure their death was comfortable. How do you like that? I know I do. Firing squad works too. Or perhaps beheading.

No beheading because that is the favorite of Islam and the terror of the French Revolution off-and-on into the French Republic.   There is no need to put heads on pikes in the civilized Western World.

25 posted on 12/21/2021 4:08:25 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Fungi

At least they have a few vowels! Have you seen the names of the Muslims in this country from Somalia, somethingstan and other 3rd world crap hole countries that have Class A CDL’s driving 80,000 pound semis all around the country, not able to speak or understand the language to talk to an officer, and have 1/1/yy birthdays because they dont know when they were born? Talk about scary


26 posted on 12/21/2021 4:22:59 PM PST by southernindymom
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To: BenLurkin

27 posted on 12/21/2021 4:28:16 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: southernindymom

That’s interesting how lax it is now.
When CDLs first came out in the 90s, I had a very difficult time getting one because there was a guy in Massachusetts with the same name as me who had a bunch of DWI convictions.
IIRC it took three trips downtown to the Indiana state BMV headquarters.


28 posted on 12/21/2021 4:28:23 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: BenLurkin
...the system causes psychological distress and seeking compensation over mental suffering from living in uncertainty until the last day of their lives.

"Our victims don't have to suffer like that," they continued. I don't think anyone bought it.

29 posted on 12/21/2021 4:33:12 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: MercyFlush

That is my philosophy on the death penalty, and I’m not Japanese.


30 posted on 12/21/2021 4:41:11 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: BenLurkin

I like this approach. “Good morning!”....”Well, uh, not for you...”


31 posted on 12/21/2021 5:31:50 PM PST by bigbob
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To: The people have spoken

Agreed.

Why is everyone so worried about the feelings of the murderers? It’s not like the murderers cared about the feelings of their victims.

IMO, the executions should happen sooner rather than later.


32 posted on 12/21/2021 5:37:42 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Vaquero

“Geee they hanged them.”

They should use rubber bands from the office. Keep adding them one at a time until done.


33 posted on 12/21/2021 6:10:26 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: The Antiyuppie

Aren’t we all living in uncertainty until the last day of our lives.?

Especially during these Biden days.


34 posted on 12/21/2021 7:06:59 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: MercyFlush

They are weak — no diversity. /s


35 posted on 12/21/2021 7:11:05 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Tommy. The pinball wizard. The Who. I just gave you a threefer.


36 posted on 12/21/2021 7:37:12 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: MercyFlush
"Japan has few crime problems. Perhaps we should take notes."

Japan is a police state. I'd rather we weren't.

37 posted on 12/21/2021 11:14:20 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: nascarnation

It is something else for sure. I work in trucking insurance and we get the driver list of course to run MVR’s. You have “regions” where they all congregate- Michigan & Ohio are full of Somalian, Afgan, etc- lots of Mohameds, Ali’s, Mustaf....most can barely speak English. 99% have a 1/1 birthday because they say that they don’t “mark” birthdays where they come from so the State Dept gives them a 1/1 birthday. Greenwood is Indian with a whole lot of Singh’s. Bowling Green is Bosnian, Chicago is Ukraine and every name ends in VIC. I worry most about the Michigan Somolians.


38 posted on 12/22/2021 5:27:38 AM PST by southernindymom
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To: The Antiyuppie

better than turning them loose like we do to make room for the unvaccinated in prison.


39 posted on 12/22/2021 9:03:55 AM PST by Ronald77
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To: higgmeister

“There is no need to put heads on pikes in the civilized Western World.”

I disagree.

L


40 posted on 12/22/2021 9:06:18 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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