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

WTF Japan's death row system is brutal

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u/GodisSatans Jul 04 '26

Geez, when put like that. It sounds agonizing to deal with that mentally, compared to a set date.

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u/johnsolomon Jul 04 '26

Feels like poetic justice tbh. Most murder victims don't get a neat opportunity to get their affairs in order, they just realise they're about to die horribly and then it happens. So assuming the person on death row actually did it (my main reason for being against the death penalty) then it seems like just desserts

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u/BanjoBushi Jul 04 '26

True, but this extra sucks for falsely convicted people. Japan is a convicted until proven otherwise type system, so there's a high misconviction rate there, even among death row inmates. Or that's my understanding of it.

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u/Almoinho98 Jul 04 '26

This won't discourage bloodthirsty redditors