Norris2k said:
I live in Japan, and while I'm moderately in favor of death penalty, I don't think the low crime rate has anything to do with death penalty. As you wrote, it's not a sentence for stealing something, In fact most murders and rapes would not get you a death penalty, it's very limited, mostly to serial killing, horrible crimes, etc. To put it in perspective, there is about 1000 murder a year in Japan (that is very low) and no more than a few sentences a year. By the way, there are a lot of reasons why Japan has a low criminal rates, and I believe one is a very conservative and punishing system regarding sentences, prisons, police rights. Death penalty is just a consequence of that. |
Hmmmm, thank you so much for the detailed reply! I was wondering if it's because of it or a cultural, maybe its the second as another member said ( howbeit, I still believe that death penantly must be related to some extent to that ) .
! We all know how wonderful people are Japanese! ( Satoru Iwata is a great example <3 )
Japanese for me are magnanimous, kind-hearted, reverent, responisble, moral and extremely loyalists and very strict where it's needed! I could say more positive things about them!
P.s When I said murder, I was talking about just intentional/premeditated murder and generally grave crimes!
1000 per year? Japanese prisons must be empty...lol