tak13 said:
You mean some states...Am I wrong? As for Japan, yeah and they defend it strongly when they get scathed for that! By the way, Japan has very low criminal rate, I wonder if it's because of it... I mean you don't want to risk your life by commiting a crime, of course for a grave crime ( like murder or rape ) , I don't think you get executed, for example if you steal jewelery, money e.t.c or burgling. |
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.
