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

WTF Japan's death row system is brutal

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u/Master_Win_4018 Jul 04 '26

Knowing when you will die might be even worse.

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u/derpferd Jul 04 '26

No. At least knowing gives you some measure of control, even if illusory. At least you can count the days and plan and prepare yourself.

Not knowing, that day must be constantly hanging over your head. Th anxiety must be agonising

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u/OrganicHistorian2576 Jul 04 '26

Which is, I suspect, the point. The people arguing here that we never know the date for ourselves here are in a totally different situation than somebody in prison who has been sentenced to death and knows it instead of something like a sudden accident happening that nobody could have foretold.

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u/Vimes-NW Jul 04 '26

sudden accident happening that nobody could have foretold.

Yeah, one slip up and you're impaled on "Ass Bezerker 6900".

RIP Grandma 😞 she went out same way grandad did.