Death Penalty: Does your country have it?

[tak13]

Norris2k said:

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.

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