The Evil Design of Japan's Death Penalty

The Evil Design of Japan's Death Penalty

Sources:

[hoogyoutube]

Corrections/nuances:

Portugal did abolish the death penalty in the 1800s. It also abolished the death penalty in 1976 because it had been reinstated for military purposes during WW1. Deathpenaltyinfo.org recognizes 1976 as the formal date. The point of that segment, and I will be clearer about assumptions/definitions on screen in future videos for sure so that’s my bad, is that a new constitution after the fall of an authoritarian leader has been associated with the formal abolition of the death penalty. That happened after Salazar with the new constitution. Japan also signed a new constitution, but with no formal abolition.

Researchers found (source in description) that lynching predicts modern executions, but when you account for slavery - lynching does not, but slavery does. There’s a lot of variance in these studies, and the level that injustices in the past have an impact on today is not something I, a “professional” youtuber in a bedroom, am going to be able to explain well. Adverbs like “intimately” do not help because that’s vague and unclear writing. I do think this can all be true (would like to hear other’s thoughts) while it also still being important to point out that this makes the US different from Japan.

As of right now, I don’t know how I stand on the death penalty. My instinctual feeling when someone kills 31 people by burning them alive like I mention at the end is yes. As it would be if my family was brutally murdered by someone. That being said, the non zero probability, especially in Japan with its high prosecution rate, makes the risk quite uncomfortable that I start thinking - better not. But then I can think that, that makes me some moral saint - that I would not take that chance with the death penalty - but I and the majority of the world would take that chance with locking someone in a cell for extended periods of time. So I’m not sure my morality is consistent. Long story short, I don’t really know.

[kntrsh]

You have been condemned to ultimate uncertainty

[hakunkamminga]

I've got a lot of ambivalence against this. This dude sentenced 7 people to a brutal death, I am sure they didn't see it coming, either

[notherpersonnel]

what the heck is that death rooom contraption, multiple rooms, a spinning religion panel, a moral dilemma button, feels like an escape room straight out of zero escape

[Racks]

imagine getting jailed, executed, then cremated and back to jailed

[loxplor]

Utah, Idaho, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Oklahoma still allow the firing squad as a backup method over lethal injection. The most recent execution by firing squad was 2010 in Utah.

[manana]

7:19 Lethal injections also have the highest rate of botchery out of all the methods. The idea of being conscious and in in excruciating pain whilst unable to move or give away any signals of my suffering is something truly terrifying.

[bluewhale]

In Singapore and Malaysia, there is still death penalty for drug trafficking.

[SaojChess]

rare sighting: Hoog doesn't talk about how great the Netherlands is

[happykharl]

I don't feel any sympathy for kato

[Whatsthbgda]

That story about the arson attack is so bizarre too - it happened at Kyoto Animation’s main studio (A Silent Voice, Haruhi Suzumiya, K-ON!) and took place because the perpetrator believed his submission to an animation contest they ran plagiarized his work (it obviously didn’t).

Absolutely wild loss

[gaiaiulia]

Malaysia also has the death penalty. We were warned on the flight into Kuala Lumpur that if we were caught bringing drugs into the country the penalty was death. You could feel the frisson that rippled through the passengers.

[brubeck]

in russia they put the death penelty on hold changed it to life (until death ) in prison, and you dont want to be there . the day they changed the law many prisoners commited
suicide .they would have rather been hanged than serve life in prison.

[vxxiii]

The 3 button system is actually intriguing and fascinating.

[DonkeyFrog]

My city centre flat is about the same size except I have to pay £650 per month for it.

[Halfshanks]

I missed the part where this is evil...

[stephenchisadza]

Calling it "evil" is subjective and based on your Western standards

[LostOnceLefthanded]

60% through the video. Still waiting for the evil design.

[mikea.]

When I first saw the title, I thought they were still made to do Seppuku...

[TheSaturnV]

Evil design eh? Their victims didn’t know the day they were going to die, and were not given any time to make out a will, eat a snack and pray.

Their ends came with extreme suffering as in the case of the 36 in the fire. The killer however is given a swift and sudden end.

You still want me to feel guilty that the US and Japan use the death penalty?