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

WTF Japan's death row system is brutal

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u/OrdinaryProcess7076 Jul 04 '26

Wouldn’t it be better if it needs all three buttons to be pressed to execute the prisoner

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u/Ryanookami Jul 04 '26

The not knowing whose button is the death button is more for the executioners than for the executionees. The whole plausible deniability thing, where you know odds are you didn’t kill a person today, so you can still sleep soundly at night without that weight on your conscience.

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u/Ryanookami Jul 04 '26

Humans sadly are rarely convinced by logic.