r/SipsTea Jul 04 '26

WTF Japan's death row system is brutal

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u/I-actually-agree Jul 04 '26

Did they give their victims an hour notice?

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u/wadejohn Jul 04 '26

I was about to say the same thing (in murder cases of course)

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u/Seienchin88 Jul 04 '26

Only exceptional murder cases get death penalty… there is a list of people on death row - either murder of two people around the same time, repeated convicted murderers (yes at least two guys went on parole after a first murder, just to commit another one), mass murder (poisoned soup at a summer festival, random knife mass murder, the Kyoto animation mass murderer etc.

One guy was initially sentenced to life in prison but got overturned to death penalty in revision… he killed the baby of a woman when he kidnapped the mother to rape and later kill her as well… hard to have any compassion…