• SatouKazuma@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    And to the shock of absolutely fucking nobody…

    If I can comment on capital punishment more widely, however, it’s barbaric. I think a long prison sentence would probably better do justice. Judicial killings have proven to be an ineffective deterrent to crime, and they remove the state’s moral high ground.

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      11 months ago

      For what it’s worth, he’ll be suffering in his cell waiting for quite awhile until an unspecified execution date due to the Japanese death sentence system.