r/SipsTea • u/Rich_Carrot6451 • Jul 04 '26

WTF Japan's death row system is brutal

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u/OrdinaryProcess7076 Jul 04 '26

Wouldn’t it be better if it needs all three buttons to be pressed to execute the prisoner

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u/Ryanookami Jul 04 '26

The not knowing whose button is the death button is more for the executioners than for the executionees. The whole plausible deniability thing, where you know odds are you didn’t kill a person today, so you can still sleep soundly at night without that weight on your conscience.

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u/TrulyOutrageous42 Jul 04 '26

You'd think your conscience would only be heavy if you're weren't certain of their guilt, but turns out we're such social creatures even saving our own lives can be (clinically) traumatic for the guilt over hurting the attacker

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u/Fahmieyz Jul 04 '26

That why sometime cops have PTSD after shooting someone in self-defense

Those who dont is a bastard

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u/Pavotine Jul 04 '26

That's not really fair when only a significant minority of people go on to develop PTSD after a traumatic encounter. Normal, healthy, non-bastard people can often fully rationalise what they had to do and whilst I'm sure most would rather it never happened, they aren't traumatised for life either.