Death Row Policies Under Fire From AI

Remember how I told you about the four death row inmates who were surprised with their death on Christmas Day? Well, now the Japanese Justice Ministry is under heat from international human rights group Amnesty International for its death penalty. AI said of the Christmas day executions:

The retrograde step runs counter to the universal protection of human rights and is at odds with the international trend away from the use of the death penalty.

It's true, the current Justice Minister Jinen Nagase is very gallow-happy, especially compared to the man who held the post prior to him, who didn't order any executions during his 11 months in office.

Here's how the Japanese death row system works:

1. You get sentenced to death.
2. You get put on death row.
3. You have no idea when you're gonna die. Neither do your parents, or your lawyers. It could be tomorrow, it could be 50 years from now. The constant anticipation is part of your punishment.
4. One random morning, you'll find out it's your last day. I think you get a meal. And then you're a goner.
5. An announcement is made in public that one prisoner was hanged that day. But they don't say who. Nobody knows you're dead, they just know that there's one less dangerous criminal alive today.

Maybe the growing prison population has something to do with it.

Comments

[michael]

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[Covert7]

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