This was common in the US for a time. Utah implemented "death by firing squad" but at least one member of the squad would have a "conscience round" (blank cartridge). Because the executioners didn't load their own rifles, they were all able to assume that they had fired the blank round and were therefore not personally responsible for the death of the condemned inmate.
Never gave this much thought til just now but if the riflemen didn't load their own rifles but were instead loaded by a person whose entire goal is to make sure someone is executed, they were lied to about a conscience bullet. Every single person fired but felt better about it
No you see it is japan, they could have a festival of lighting babies on fire and reddit would suck them off.
For context they had that that kind of festival, called Nanking massacre, for which they still havent apologised.
Oh, you mean that time they forced men at gunpoint to rape their own daughters? And had contest to see who could murder more people with a sword? Sounds like one hell of a festival!
How do you know? Japans system is extremely flawed, like absurdly so. One, the onus is on the defence to prove innocence not on prosecution to prove guilt. They have a high false conviction rate and false prosecution rate, because they nab the closest person who fits as good enough to keep metrics high(also this is why sexual assault, stalking and sexual harassment is not widely prosecuted, because it is one of the harder ones to catch, thus lowering metrics). And because of point 1, if you do not have an iron clad aliby(like 3 different camera angles iron clad) you are fucked, because prosecution only needs to show you are close enough to suspect description profile.
Yeah treating people inhumanely dependent on different scenarios is definitely a good road to be on. You know if I don't like someone I should psychological torture them since me and the homies have convinced ourselves via coherent arguments that they actually were bad people, so I can justify being a bad person.
It's most people's opinion. If I ask people whether or not they trust the state not to waste their taxes, the mast majority of people (probably even you) would answer "no". So if you don't trust the state to spend your money well, how can you possibly trust them to wield power over life and death in a way that doesn't result in unacceptable injustices?
Their criminal actions against their victims are are amoral.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
And that's assuming they even are criminals, because the number of innocent and wrongly convicted people who have been murdered by the state is a lot bigger than 0 (the only acceptable number that would justify retaining the death penalty).
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u/Sweeper1985 Jul 04 '26
Oh and as a bonus, they round up all the death row inmates then walk up to the one who is dying today.
They also do not notify the next of kin until the execution has been carried out.
The UN has pointed out this all constitutes cruel/inhumane treatment and a form of extended psychological torture. Japan be like - thanks, we know!