Posted on 06/17/2008 1:29:10 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Ping!
The lack of a death penalty is a leading sign of a society that doesn’t have what it takes to ensure its long term survival. It’s rather emblematic of giving up in the face of evil.
Kudos to Japan for not caving to the likes of the Shamnesty International crowd.
I’m generally against the death penalty except in cases where the accused is convicted on the basis of a guilty plea; it’s too easy to kill the wrong guy. However, in cases such as that of Miyazaki, I make an exception. The guy was simply one of the lowest pieces of filth ever to exist on this planet. Every breath he was allowed to draw prior to his richly deserved execution was one too many.
Japan does not cotton to any of that modern, painless, lethal injection stuff. In Japan, they simply hang your ass — quietly, behind prison walls, with no press coverage and no media fuss.
I hate to say this about another human being, but in the case of Miyazaki I say good riddance to bad garbage. May his existence be erased from human memory; may his name never be spoken again.
Sayonara!
What is it that some people don't understand about the term "justice?" Sometimes the only way true justice can be achieved is through the death penalty. It's not that complicated of a concept.
Let a family member of a death penalty protester be the victim of a heinous murder, and they'd change their tune real fast. Without having to experience it themselves, they have no empathy for the dead, and especially no empathy for the families that have to deal with knowing that a loved one was brutally, senselessly murdered, while also knowing that the murderer gets to keep on living, which adds to the frustration and pain. Screw that.
It sounds to me like the Japanese are intent on carrying out the death penalty when it's required, and aren't afraid to stand by it as a sane policy. Good for them.
If you take a precious life for senseless or greedy reasons, then you should pay with your own life. Why is that such a problem for some people that have nothing better to do than whine about murderers getting the justice due them? Cry me a river.
If it was up to me, the death penalty would have many different degrees of swiftness. In cases where there is no doubt about the guilt of the perp (like with the Long Island railroad mass murders), the perp should be put to death immediately, like the next day. In cases where a conviction of guilt was established, but not necessarily an airtight conviction, then let them exhaust their appeals.
definitely NOT "mata, aimashou"
I'm encouraged that Japan took this scum off the face of the earth. And I congratulate the fact that that the Japanese people won't have to feed, clothe and house these three perverts at the waste of precious resources.
I believe that the death penalty will come back generally in Europe, although I believe that the societies themselves have been so "gutterized" that there will be many people put to death for the wrong reasons.
Nevertheless, well done, Japan.
As in for blasphemy - for failing to give the Koran the respect that Europe's future rulers will demand?
“As in for blasphemy - for failing to give the Koran the respect that Europe’s future rulers will demand?”
I’m glad that the moderators allow mind reading on THIS thread. You did a good job with my mind. Bullseye!
Japan has an old and advanced culture.
Unlike the declining Western Civilizations,Nippon has the moral clarity to punish ultimate evil with ultimate punishment.
Only coward governments with no true concern for their people avoid holding their worse criminals fully responsible.
It is a very simple concept if you limit your thinking to what's going on in the physical level of existence; if you ratchet it up a notch or two to a more spiritual or philosophical level it becomes less simple. Having a society engage in sanctioned murder no matter how "justified" doesn't advance it.
You've drawn a rather fuzzy line. If you're against the death penalty, then be against it. Don't make exceptions. Exceptions allow bias and prejudice to rule the day.
The lack of a death penalty is a leading sign of a society that doesn’t have what it takes to ensure its long term survival
Electric bleachers sounds good to me save money an eye for an eye works.
“Advanced culture”- Hmmm, are you aware of the porn and anime that comes out of that “advanced culture”? It makes American stuff look Victorian.
“It is a very simple concept if you limit your thinking to what’s going on in the physical level of existence; if you ratchet it up a notch or two to a more spiritual or philosophical level it becomes less simple. Having a society engage in sanctioned murder no matter how “justified” doesn’t advance it.”
I suppose your defintion “in the physical level of existence” doesn’t mean that when someone is murdered that they are really dead? They still have a “spiritual or philosophical” existence? Some bad people need killing and your word games doesn’t excuse that. The world needs to execute more of these killers, not less.
pics?
I would not have thought Japan had a DP. I thought they were one of those societies considered by the elites to be so much more civilized than the US because they have so little gun crime.
They hang the condemned? How long before the UN and every lefty group starts screaming they should stop this because it is racist and offensive to a certain segment of the US population?!
Your opinion not mine pal
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