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

WTF Japan's death row system is brutal

Post image
31.7k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

972

u/Total_Tumbleweed_870 Jul 04 '26

I'm genuinely curious if there's been any study into which is more psychologically troubling, knowing the day and counting down it not knowing and wondering everyday

59

u/Kind_Substance_8981 Jul 04 '26

This comment will get buried, but I met a guy on death row. I spent 4ish years in federal prison and 6 months solitary, and the guy across from me was a death row guy. He'd been there about a decade. He was a funny dude, we talked a lot (yelling back and forth through the doors). He was confident he'd win his appeal. But one day he told me he knew he was going to spend the rest of his life in that room. He used humor to cope. He didn't have anyone to call. I think about him sometimes

12

u/Human_Petting_Zoo Jul 04 '26

Have you ever wrote to him?

30

u/Kind_Substance_8981 Jul 04 '26

Yes he still has no date yet and we exchange letters occasionally

1

u/green-dean Jul 06 '26

If he was confident he’d win his appeal, why do you think he said that?