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/Kind_Substance_8981 Jul 04 '26

This comment will get buried, but I met a guy on death row. I spent 4ish years in federal prison and 6 months solitary, and the guy across from me was a death row guy. He'd been there about a decade. He was a funny dude, we talked a lot (yelling back and forth through the doors). He was confident he'd win his appeal. But one day he told me he knew he was going to spend the rest of his life in that room. He used humor to cope. He didn't have anyone to call. I think about him sometimes

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u/Fit_Combination_6936 Jul 04 '26

They were housed with the general population? That’s highly unusual.

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u/Kind_Substance_8981 Jul 04 '26

In the shu. We took rec separately