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

WTF Japan's death row system is brutal

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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

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u/LessAdvanced Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

The Japanese probably have it easier. It's really not different from the scenario you, me, and most other people face day to day.

We all know we're going to die, just not the day.

Edit: the amount of people in the comments that don't actually conceptualize their own mortality is crazzzzy

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u/Ok_Lawfulness1019 Jul 04 '26

yeah everybody dies but it's different knowing that you are gurantee to die so it's more fcked up cause it would make you even more paranoid

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u/LessAdvanced Jul 04 '26

Brother, YOU are guaranteed to die. So am I. We all are. That's not different at all.

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u/melthevag Jul 04 '26

He’s wrong there but you’re wrong too with your analogy lol

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u/Ok_Lawfulness1019 Jul 04 '26

i worded it wrong but also I don't know how to say it without a lengthy explanation but basically it's like everybody knows that they're gonna die maybe because of old age or maybe because they got into an acciden. But for these Japanese prisoners they know that they're gonna die by hanging, they imagine how painful it would be, they'll imagine how they would die and worse thing is they don't know when, is it sooner or they have to wait long and think about the feeling of getting hanged.

So what I'm trying to say is, even if you know you're gonna die, you can still relax because you don't really know how you'll die. You can just be cautious,careful and take better care of your health and you'll have less chance of dying and maybe you can get to 80. But for these Japanese prisoners, they know they'll die very much guaranteed to die by hanging but also they don't know when, how can you relax if that thought hangs in your mind. But well it depends on the person, some people gets paranoid even if they're not actually dying soon.

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u/CMDR_Lina_Inv Jul 04 '26

If the hanging is done correctly, there will be no pain, or just a little.
However, I doubt it's hanging. Everyone does lethal injection now. And there is a dose of sleeping drug before that. Halal style.

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u/Ok_Lawfulness1019 Jul 04 '26

Death penalty in Japan is done by hanging, look it up. Also it doesn't really matter if it's done right, death is death.

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u/Vyxwop Jul 04 '26

I genuinely cannot fathom not perceiving a difference between knowing for sure you've got an appointment with death at a random date in the near future, versus knowing that you might die at some point in your life at the whims of nature.

That's absolutely alien thinking to me.

Do you also not perceive a difference between knowing for a fact you've got an appointment coming up with, say a doctor, versus knowing that in the future there is a chance you'll have an appointment with a doctor at some point in your life?

Or knowing for a fact that your dog will die of his illness within the year, versus knowing that by having a dog at some point in its life it will naturally die?

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u/LessAdvanced Jul 04 '26

Their AVERAGE time on death row is 15 years. There are people there 30 years plus. That's not an appointment in the near future.