On Death Penalty and the Monopoly of Violence

See, it’s shit like this that makes my blood run cold.

I have two autistic nephews. They only act out when they’ve been mistreated or when they are processing some new kind of information that they don’t understand. Otherwise, they’re just curious little scientists working out the world around them silently.

He took a victim that could never speak against him, report or even understand exactly what was happening and soberly, drawn out over a protracted period beat this poor child until he finally savagely beat the boy to death.

It goes without saying and emotions aside that people like this should be removed via express lane.

Did they behead them with samurai swords?

In the anime version

Hanged IRL

Japanese execution culture has been suborned by western methods. What a shame.

They used to test blades on live criminals who were condemned to death.

I’m not allowed to see the linked page

I’m not sure if hanging or a guillotine would be more humane.

Apologies amigo

"One of the three executed was Yasutaka Fujishiro, 65, who used a hammer and knife to kill his 80-year-old aunt, two cousins and four others in 2004, a justice ministry spokeswoman told AFP.

The other two were 54-year-old Tomoaki Takanezawa, who killed two employees at an arcade game premises in 2003, and his accomplice Mitsunori Onogawa, 44."

Wow!

Some serious charges there.

It’s a pity nowadays, this level of violence and this kind of retaliation.

But every corner of the world has its stain, here and there.

Thanks for posting.

May them and their victims rest deep and easy.

The way Japan does it… its pretty inhumane. You have no idea how long you will be on death row. All you know is that on a certain day of the week a chaplain will come visit you. One day when he comes he is going to tell you that it is your day to die.
That just seems like mental torture to me.

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Yeah I’m against the death penalty. I’m unconvinced it is the deterent that some think it is. I’m also not convinced that it isn’t more about retribution than it is about justice.
Finally I am convinced that as long as it exists it can be and will be abused.

It’s a seductive concept

Why should people that have done terrible things not be killed

I wonder how many innocent people have been killed due to miscarriages of justice?

No take backs

Quite a lot.

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I wonder how many people have gotten away with murder…and worse crimes…

What do think the best ratio is for guilty men free as compared to innocent people executed?

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As long as the numbers all tot up, justice is done

That’s a serious question.

Would we dare to guide our idea of Higher Justice with a ratio?

It’s hard when a man’s life becomes an statistic.

We might all be statistics from some people’s (Gordon) point of view.

But it was more a different way of bringing up the Blackstone ratio. Which was an idea and principle that has shaped law in the western world.

People, and many other things, might be a much more complex, and wide set of Statistics from some people’s (C.Gordon) point of view, than other people’s points of view (people who tend to reduce complex collections of variables with high levels of interactions, to absurd, often non-usefully-predictive minimal, and myopic variables).

I was reaching for a statistician joke.

Merry Christmas yah madlad.

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