Death Penalty

An episode of the Quirky Japanese Podcast podcast, hosted by Yuto Ito, titled "Death Penalty" was published on May 28, 2019 and runs 7 minutes.

May 28, 2019 ·7m · Quirky Japanese Podcast

Summary

You know the death penalty still exists in Japan. Following countries as well, America, North Korea, Afghanistan, Malaysia, China, etc, etc. Today, I will share the Death Penalty now and old in Japan. Yeah, it’s heavy, isn’t it? Last week in Osaka, Osaka High Court decided to uphold the death penalty for one old lady. 72-year-old woman, her name is Kakehi Tisako, she killed three men during the relationships. She had money trouble between the victims. Planned to murder them by using cyanide poison. Japan Times says Kakehi was married or associated with more than 10 men and inherited about ¥1 billion. It has been taking more than five years to judge her to the high court. Eventually, this case would be solved in the Supreme Court in the future. Now, Kakehi is 72 years old. As her lawyer, she got dementia. The long year made her mad. The media has been showing how crazy she is. There is the death penalty, the media focus on the judge’s result but not the process. Last year, 6 peoples were sentenced to death from the Aum Shinrikyo cultist. It had been 13 peoples were executed by capital punishment. I kept thinking was that necessary? Seems too much to me. Basically, I have a strong disagreement toward the death penalty. Hanging is out of the question. Most painful and miserable way to send to death. I can’t believe still Japan has crucial circumstances. How about Lethal Injection? Yet, there is no big discussion. It is said, hanging might not finish the life in a second. There is no point to give them pain for the execution. When Aum terrorist attack happened in Japan, people were terrified. 13 people were killed by the chemical weapon. The leader of the group, Asahara was popular. He was even on the TV Show, Japanese mass media entertained him, before the attack. Many young people attended the group seriously. What’s behind that action? A few media faced on their beliefs and principles. But, some of the media laugh it off, even made them foolish. The society executed the members without a proper term of the procedure which clears the good and bad in that incident. What did create the terrorists? Lack of understanding toward the group that misguided by media. Should mass media has the regulation to show the regional group on the public? Each region has each belief. I must say the society had a responsibility to understand them. Need to accept the difference. Not making fun of them. I hate the Japanese mass media. Last year, more than 10 peoples were hanged. This number is higher than the average. How many cases were published? Apart from the well-known criminals, there were a lot of decisions were made outside of your eyes. Here is the case, Hakamada Iwao was released from jail. He spent 47 years under the false charge. His death penalty was stopped by the District Court last year. How crazy is that? The government paying compensation to him for his taken away lifetime. But, yet his case remained on the record after the Supreme Court judged his guilty. in 1980 He was spending the life with the fear of death. Every morning, he heard the footstep of the guard coming to his section, announcing they are hanged. In Japan, the criminals know the execution day on that morning. In America, the execution is announced even a few years before. The announcement should make earlier in Japan. People need to know. And the media have to build the argument. It seems like people ignore the fact of hanging from their life. Nowadays after you are arrested by police, they try to get your confession within 48 hours. In America, that technique was taught in Police school. It is a big problem. In Japan, most of the suspects are prosecuted. It’s higher than the other country’s case. If you get caught, you probably get jailed in Japan. According to Hakamada, the police hit him and treated him as a criminal at first. Even worse, he was at the interview the whole day. It continued 23days. How hard to prove your self innocence surrou

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