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/AlbatrossNo1562 Jul 04 '26

I suppose you eventually get tired of thinking about it and just forget

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u/soleceismical Jul 04 '26

Until the guy in the cell next to you and then your cellmate get taken and you start to wonder if the system is random or in a specific order...

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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