Capital Punishment in Japan

we dont have capital punishment here in germany...
it's not right to do things like that i guess...

I think capital punishment should be enforced by everyone for first degree murderers. If you are sick and twisted in a way that makes you to take another human life, you don't deserve to keep on living.

Capital punishment still exists here in Singapore, though most of the cases where capital punishment was meted out were rather highly publicized media affairs...no chance of anonymity for the condemned criminal...

Doesn't happen here in Brazil, but we shure needed it.
Catholic country, never gonna happen.

But not only capital punishment... we plain need more effective laws against criminals.

People who needs to be arrested here aren't, and poor people that ends up commiting crimes because there's no other option left (apart from dying from hunger), will not rarely get unfair prison times, and harsh treatment.

Problem is, I can't see this getting any better. Politicians gives the example. It's not an unreal estimate that over 50% of our politicians are involved somehow on corruption related crimes, or crimes against the brazilian people.

Not only that, but most of these criminals are never punished, even after being caught.

I'd love to have capital punishment to those.

ooh singapore is heavy on laws !! they got alot of capital punishment ... like murdering 1 person, trafficing drugs both can lead to death

afaik, capital punishment is still being used here through lethal injection. condemned prisoners are strapped to the "death bed" and a lethal dose of a deadly chemical is injected to the blood stream. it's a slow and less painful death.

there are some human rights group who are working to abolish capital punishment

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the philippines is a catholic country and yet we still practice capital punishment

Capital punishment may be just in some cases, but the cost of applying it to someone who is innocent is incredibly high. I don't think there's a justice system in the world accurate / cautious enough to support it.

We do have death sentences, though thats only in a few states. The method generally used now is through toxins. Interesting how Japan still uses hanging as a form of death.

Capital punishment is fine with me. However, the world has become so overly wrapped in the human condition and namby-pamby that we will baby ourselves to death eventually.

A lot of countries in Asia still practice capital punishment while many western countries have abolished it.

yes capital punishment is legal in singapore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_singapore

well that is assuming kira doesn't get him first.

I've known that Japan has capital punishment, but it isn't widely practiced over there. In fact, I read that the previous chief Judge in japan was against it so very very few death sentences were handed out for a while because of that belief.
The UK doesn't have the death sentence, but then we're having problems with overcrowding in prisons, more lenient sentences for crimes and a slowly increasing crime rate!

I don't know if I'm for capital punishment, but I do understand the arguments for, moreso that the arguments against.

capital punishment is indeed legal in malaysia. it applies to serious crimes such as drug smuggling and murder.
IMO capital punishment is needed for some of the more severe crimes. a murderer certainly deserves death and i dont understand how a jail term would be enough to punish a person who has committed such a terrible crime. but thats just me.

Here in Singapore, quite a number of crime will lead to hanging: possession(usage?) of firearms, kidnapping(whoever attempt this in Singapore is downright insane) or even possession of 15 g of heroin.

here in the us alot of states still do have capital punishment.. although some states just haven't done so in awhile.. while texas has put in a fast lane :D

usually lethal injection here.. but in some states you have a choice.. and in utah.. you have 4.. hanging, electric chair, lethal injection, or a firing squad.. you pick..

i belive in it since the most violent offender won't be rehabilitated so.. go ahead..

In USA some states have it and some don't The DC sniper was sentences to death, but for the most part its lethal injection. In Belarus (where I was born and lived for 14 years) we had capital punishment for series crimes that are extremely evil. I personally believe in capital punishment because "life is a gift, and those that take it away! why should they keep this gift?"

I approve wholeheartedly of capital punishment. In fact, I would go on to say it isn't used enough. Far too much money is waste keeping people in jail. There are two solutions for this - decreasing prison time for victimless crimes - like drug possession etc, and increasing the amount of capital punishment. Why do we let child abusers live?

Just another reason I hate England, the only capital punishment we have is for treason!! What a joke!

Increasing capital punishment in Japan would have the added bonus of decreasing the severe overpopulation. Wouldnt we all like an apartment thats a little bit bigger?!?! (=semi serious)

Capital punishment is legal in Malaysia too.

You know what i think would be a better overall punishment?

Getting what you did to others unto yourself. Like, if you commit murder and dismembered the corpse, you'll be dismembered alive. Rapist will have their "ahem" cut off. Drivers who did hit-and-run will be run over by a car.
Robbers, thief will have one of their limbs broken.

I believe such rules would be very effective in curbing crimes, even though they're extreme. >_

wow, Japan hangs people? Did not know that... In America you can choose!
a.) lethal injection
b.) hanging
c.) electrecution
d.) gas
e.) firing squad (yes, in some state it still is)

and to my opinion, I say, whatever. Punishment is needed, but what is the proper punishment for taking someone's life?

I think that peple who commited violent offenses should just be deployed by the military's frontline soldiers, who are the first to die (like, mortality rate of 90% or more type situations).

I had no idea cap punishment was still goin on in so many places.

On a (much) lighter note, that picture of elmo is crackin me up ^^;

I'm not against Capital Punishment--rather I'm against the misuse of it. It should only be used when a criminal is beyond help. Many criminals are capable of recorvery, but some are just too far gone to even try.

Yeap.. Singpaore is the same as Japan.
But one thing special about Singapore is that we impose caning too.

More info here ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore

If you don't want your butt to bleed, Don't commit crimes in Singapore.

still hang in malaysia

As you know Danny, capital punishment in Europe is forbidden.

i don't see much of a seriouness if they were to really recevie the capital punishment.. it's really too cheap for them..

I'm from Spain (which got accepted in the European Union in the 1980's) and one of the requirements for a country to become a member of the EU is to respect all human rights (no torture, no death penalty, etc...) I personally believe that death penalty is fair in some situations... but since there is always a margin for mistakes (In the US, 1 in every 3 prisioners condemned to death penalty is found innocent afterwards) I think that the ultimate punishment should be be held in uncommunicated jail for life (come on, this is really even worst than death) What I really hate from the Spanish Law System is that a prisioner cannot be in jail for more than 30 years!!! So no matter what you did and how many years they give you (a murder is 100 years, a terrorist can get 1000 or 2000 years in Spain) you will be free after 30 years...

私は死刑賛成な人、まぁ「全ての人が更正できるとは思えない｣とか「死ぬまで牢屋の中に入れるとか意味が有るとは思えない」とか「社会が受け入れられ無い人は死ぬしかない」とかその辺りが理由。(日本の)死刑反対派の人がよく言う「先進国で死刑制度が残っている国は殆ど無い」って主張が受け容れられないのもありますけど。(だから何？って感じです。ハイ)

余談だけど、ハリウッド版「ドラゴンボール」の役者募集は解り易いB級狙いで笑えました。

what wendigo said. totally against it.

aaaaa! capital punishment= evilness!
kinda seems like a slow way to die... well, i'm not gonna do any crimes in the first place so i guess if i ever move to japan i won't need to worry about it!

Actually, hanging is a very quick method of executing someone as long as its done properly. Hanging is interpreted as choking the person to death when it is really meant to snap there neck. If the neck doesn't break it means they didn't do it right. The most common reason is because they didn't fall far enough to create enough force on the neck to break. If anyone has seen the leaked video of Saddam being executed should see that is a proper hanging.

I just couldn't vote in this poll because I am "completely" on the fence about it.

My belief and my desire to show some mercy fight with each other on whether criminals should be executed or forgiven. Of course someone will have to serve their time for life: that is their punishment for whatever hanous crimes they committed.

Unfortunatly the big guy upstairs in this case does not disapprove of capital punishment, so despite what I think it has to continue. I am a big supporter of human rights, but compared to the big hombre my opinion means nothing.

Hanging isn't as bad as most people say it is. I hate to sound sick with this, but depending on the quality of the noose and the proper counter weights and balances, the neck will break quicker, thus the condemned will die a quicker death.

The USA uses a couple of methods but prefers to use lethal injection to stop the heart and breathing of the condemned. Sometimes this process has gone horribly wrong and the condemned have been in intense pain, human rights activists will say that is totally wrong but again the guy (or girl) is about to die... I think we got rid of the electric chair quite a few years ago but the "gas chamber" I believe is still in use. I am not sure on this one either but I think that the firing squad has also been discontinued.

So yeah, I am on the fence on that one. In my opinion that saying that taxpayers claim is from a source of greed and hate. Perhaps capital punishment should be reserved for the most haneous of criminals.

Like -XYZPDQ, I'm riding the fence on this one. I don't disapprove of capital punishment. I disapprove of certain capital punishment such as the firing squad, the electric chair, and hangings. In my personal opinion, that's unhumane whereas I consider lethal injection humane.

Capital punishment is no longer practised in the UK but oddly enough, there are still some laws in the country for capital punishment which haven't rightly been officially abolished yet.

I know assassination of the monarchy will by English law lead to a death sentence. Damn those lazy politicians... =P

First of all, please forgive my choice of words here.

I agree with japantech.info and Guarayakha in that some criminals have an easy life compared to the permanent scars they caused to their victims.
Some of them even have golden cells with TV and stuff like that... Where is Blind Justice when we truly need her?

Yes, the best way to calm a rapist down is to cut his (beep!) and a scammer to pay people back until he runs out of energy.

I am not for death penalty, since it is not proportionate to the damage that was done. I would prefer to see those outlaws working and working until they understand how life can be hard and cruel (no physical or moral torture though)... Then they may learn something.

"Death is too good for you" I would say as a conclusion.
Really.

Absolutely I dont approve capital punishment, the State beings a murder doing that

Use the 'equivalent exchange' as punishment.

If you took an eye, you lose an eye.
If you kill some one, you serve life in prison.
If you kill more than one, you get genetically manipulated to serve out several life time in prison.

alright heres a video about capital punishment in singapore. We have the highest per capita rate of death punishment in the world. They have killed total of 400 in the last 13 year .. compaired to your 3 million locals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Ltn4_cSHk

Capital Punishment imo isn't very "cool." Also...I find it a bit odd how the Japanese government still uses hanging as a method for killing someone. I never really thought of it, but I sorta expected something like lethal injection? Also...for the last meal...you can have ANYTHING???

I wish we had capital punishment.
Dutch law is to soft.
If you kill someone, you just get a few years and rehab.
Thats it.
Then you are free to kill again.

I am firmly against capital punishment, which is probably due to my education as well as the arguments I have heard for and against it.

Pro-DP arguments seem to be based on Hammurabi-style morality and appeals to emotion, the former outdated, the latter a falacy.

In secondary school, when I was 14, we had a Constitutional Law class, which has served me well (indeed, I think all secondary school should teach that subject early on). We had one two-hour class one day, about why the Death Penalty was not legal in Argentina (granted, many military governments have executed dissenters, but they had to act outside the law for that).

Basically, after the 1810 revolution, the Assembly of 1813 declared a number of punishments used by the former Spanish rulers to be inhuman. Among these were torture and the death penalty, which were considered equally unjust (they also made slavery illegal). Later on, this was enshrined in our Penal Code.

The arguments against the Death Penalty are manifold, and they were presented to me all those years ago. For instance, in many many cases, people are executed unfairly, which is only discovered later on, when it is too late. This happens way more often than people think, and I don't believe in the theory that some innocents must die so that the guilty can be punished.

All that said, I find some of what you posted interesting, Danny. Mainly, the bit about the execution system: to avoid the policemen to feel like executioners, they never know who actually killed the prisoner.

I'm for it as long as the defendant is 100% proven of guilt, has no remorse, and is extremely dangerous and can re-offend.

The more heinous it is, the more they deserve it. I don't consider heinous criminals to be humans anymore. Sounds harsh, but where is the justice for the victims?

mad n1nja and JaydenM... true indeed.
Like I said before, some are relatively unpunished for their crimes and that is one of the reasons why violence and criminality still plague our world without rest.

I don't care how bad the person is.

It's really not our place to decide who lives or died. Period.

oh... kind of like how Timothy Leary got 30 years for possession of half a joint.

we got capital punishmnet in malaysia in the form of hanging..till death..there's a special squad that executes all the hanging at all the prisons in Malaysia..

I can't really answer the question, coz' I'm dumb and don't really know much... But I think capital punishment should only be for those who commits serious crimes, like murder... Here in Singapore, people who are senteced to be hanged will be granted to eat any dish they want, sounds weird? Yea, I don't even know if this is real...

I against the capital punishment In a Nutshell.

The capital punishment has been used more against poor, religious, ethnic minorities, and politics opponents.

The capital punishment did not reduce the criminality as supporters said

The capital punishment is more expensive than keep the prisoners alive.

There are always a possibility to kill a innocent.

The message is lets kill to show killing is bad.

More info

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGACT500012000?open&of=ENG-392
http://www.amnesty.ca/deathpenalty/canada.php
http://www.deathpenalty.org/index.php?pid=cost&menu=1%22
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V113/N53/morrison.53o.html
http://www.religioustolerance.org/execut4.htm

Part of me his for and against capital punishment.

There are instances when it had been used improperly here in the US.

There are some istances where crimals deserve it such as:
War Criminal
Mass (Seriel) Killers
Terrorist
Traitors

I think a few states like Texas still perform capital punishment and I don't think it is a good idea.

1. They don't kill them right away, the prisoners are kept for a long time before being killed so the tax money to keep them alive is still being used.

2. There have been a lot of incidents when a person is convicted and sentenced to death, then a few years after they have been executed, some new evidence pops up that shows that they were innocent.

3. Killing someone to punish them for killing someone seems silly to me

lets forgive and forget...
will there ever be peace in this world if we keep revenging

from reading some of the comments I noticed that it seems that some sees punishment as revenge. however, I personally feel that punishment and revenge are two different things. punishment could or actually serve as a form of detterent, to put it "nicely", an encouragement for proper behaviour.

while I do not disapprove of capital punishment, neither do I really support the use of capital punishment.

oh, and something I learnt from the people who punished me, "arn't you asking for it when you get punished for doing something that you know would get you punished?"

For those of you that know about major event happening in Japan. Who can remember the Saran gas attack on Tokyo Metro. Shoko Asahara (the leader of attack)desires worse than a lethel injection. He should get the Old Sparky (the electric chair).

I'd rather have a criminal spend the rest of his life in jail than get out of it by being killed.

Some people don’t change. That’s why we invented prisons and the death penalty.

Some parts of U.S.A. still have the death penalty and typically its electrocution or lethal injection. I personally believe the ultimate punishment is having to live out your life as a caged "animal" prisoners find ways to kill themselves all the time anyway.. I really think hanging is way too violent a method but this IS Japan we're talking about, ritualistic suicide by cutting open ones stomach was common in the past, so doesn't really surprise me all that much i suppose.

For me capital punishment should be given to those prisoners who have claimed lives purposely.

We don't have it in the UK and im glad we don't.

an eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind...

ooh its almost the same how it goes here. i'd say its wrong but i approve lol! but keeping them alive is much better, they'd suffer more than just instant death for what they did.

here in our country the only heavy punishment is reclusion perpetua... death penalty was lifted because of religion (Catholics) no offense...

To the people against the death penelty:

So that guy who kidnapped that 9 year old from her own bedroom, raped her then buried her alive should live by our tax money? Prisoners have cable tv, video game systems and education. Some of us can barely, if not afford that! It's pretty obvious if there is an enforced death penalty and strict laws, there will be less crime.

Here where I live (Phila), cops are being gunned down more then ever in the last 6 months and it's becoming a dirty ghetto. Corrupt law enforcement, governor.

People say "It's cruel to kill" then say "Let them live with the guilt". Now does that make sense?

Death penalty all the way. No wonder Japan has such little crime.

Light Yagami for president >_< lol

Capital punishment seems to work in Japan, whether you agree with it or not.
The Japanese legal system seems to be very thorough before convicting anyone to death. Whereas, I do not have the same confidence in our own judicial system. Perhaps it is a case of my being a resident here un the UK that I see more faults in our ststem, so I am willing to admit that I might be wrong.
I do belive that the piunishment should fit the crime, and that the guilty should lose their privilages accordingly. However, in this country, it seems to me that the prisoner can have more luxuries laid on for them by the taxpayer, than the poor victims are able to provide themselves.
I shall end here, or I run the risk of turning this expression of opinion into a two-hour lecture!! lol

I'm not sure about a death sentence. You get some people who continuously abuse innocent children, or they rape several women and even people who commit mass murders or tortures. UK Law doesn't let a person be locked up for life, but some people who go into prison are NEVER going to change. Many child abusers and rapists will re offend once out of prison and its not completely unheard of for murderers to kill again once out of prison. I think in cases like these, the criminal should ever stay in prison until they die naturally or suffer a death penelty.

I say this because no matter how long some people spend in prison, they will NEVER be fit to live a normal life, they will still re offend. Why should we release someone from prison and give them a second chance at life when they are just going to go along and continue their crime and ruin yet another victims life.

Prison should be protecting the public from people like this, so it would be better if one way or another, the criminal never came out of prison.

They killed the Amazing Elmo Live XD

death penalty is not really common in Indonesia, but around last month Am Rozi gang (some terrorist) just got death penalty by shot. I really think death penalty should be used more. heck lack of punishment just make crime rate increase!

I was actually thinking about capital punishment today. I used to be against it because I was told at school that it's primitive to want revenge. This was told by the same teacher who told that somebody found a dead body in a swamp/marsh/wetland (not quite sure what to call that in English as none of those words fits 100%) and the police presumed it was a woman who had gone missing. They presumed her husband killed her and when they told him they found a body he confessed. To quote the teacher "later it was discovered that the body wasn't her, but now that poor man had confessed". Why should we feel sorry for him going to jail if he actually did it?

Now I'm old enough to think for myself and I changed my point of view. We shouldn't protect criminals, we should protect lawful citizens against criminals. All the human rights people are actually sacrificing lawful people by protecting the criminals. I presume that they don't realise that but it's the truth.

There is a guy here who went to jail for killing his mother. When he got out he moved in with his girlfriend and killed her and her children. Now he is in jail again but the law prevents us from keeping him forever and his profile tells us that it's highly likely that he wants to kill again. The problem almost solved itself because other inmates didn't like him killing innocent children so they attacked him and tried to kill him. The guards was barely able to stop that.

I don't see capital punishment as a way to save tax money. I see it as a way to prevent really dangerous people from escaping. A few years ago somebody escaped prison and he was on the front page of all newspapers and on TV all the time because he was a high danger killer. It would appear that he killed somebody with an axe just because he wanted to do so. It turned out that he was hiding somewhere and after 3 days without food or water, he was forced to leave to get something and the police got a zillion phonecalls and he was captured again. However the whole population was scared of this killer and this wouldn't have been the case if we would allow capital punishment.

actually it cost more to kill a person the to keep him alive, at least in the US what is a irony. true if the committed a crime such as mass murder people would say "an Eye for and Eye..." and in some cases yes they would deserver it. but what does that solve? you kill em, another will takes his place. rehabilitation is the key. plus other things to prevent the crimes it self like education for one and other programs to help people. when a prisoner comes to a prison he is treated like a animal. some say its justice i say its inhumane and you just become the same as the criminal when it comes to your mentality. a violent animal.
of course there are those who cannot be rehabilitated no matter how you try. still killing them is putting your self on the same level. as i said before, it cost more to kill a man then to keep him alive. i mean once they are in the prison they are not threat for society. so why kill them in the first place? to satisfy your own barbaric thirst for revenge? even if you do kill them, what has changed? is the effects of the crime gone? does it magically change history? no it will be the same as if he where alive, only in this case you become the same thing you condemned. no matter who you are who are you or as a whole society, deciding who gets to live and die is not for us to decide. taking ones life is never justified, that is playing God.

I don't have that much of an opinion on capital punishment...
I guess, if i really had to make a decision, I would say no, I really don't approve of it. While the dying is qiuick-- augh, I don't know what I'm talking about. Hanging just seems a little unnecessary.

I'm quite shocked by most of the Comments here.
How can you justify killing a person, just by believing he did the same? There can't be an absolute proof of someone's guilt.
Examples from the USA show that the capital punishment can't be an instrument of justice, because many convicted who are sentenced to death, but are nut killed yet, are proven completely innocent. I guess they're pretty lucky... How would you feel, if you know you're innocent and have to die, just because you can't prove it.
I read many of you come from christian/catholic countries. Although I don't consider myself christian, I know that one of the main aspects of this and many other religions is repentence, which is basically called "prison" in our time. The suffering of killing someone and thinking about nothing else for many, many years is harder to bear, than dieing a short death.
There is just no ultimate certainty that the judges or the jury are always right. And sentencing somebody to death for carrying drugs or something like that is only proof that the governments of the countries are not (yet) able to control the crime without making themselves guilty.

I hope someone reads my comment, even if it's become pretty long...

I'm against capital punishment. Who says you get the right to take another man's life? It only makes you as bad as the person which commited a crime. Lifelong enprisonment, without all the comfort prisoners get these days. This at least for people who killed another person or raped or inflicted mentally or physical damage.

There is absolutely no way to justify the use of capital punishment imho. And I'm surprised to see so many reactions, altought most of them are Americans, don't want to stereotype tho, which are for capital punishment.

Also in the case if someone is found to be guilty, but the person isn't, this person's life is taken for the wrong reasons. I'd rather have the money spent on a good trial and good research instead.

Afteral, a human has rights, even if he commited a crime.

kira is justice / would be

so yes, I approve

Not in Australia... i don't think. But how many of these prisoners must Japan have to make them whine about their taxes =o

I'd say the death penalty is appropriate for:
Overwhelming evidence/witnesses - you saw the guy stab someone in front of you, photographs, DNA
Repeat offenders - people who just don't rehabilitate

Besides that, it's hard to be sure enough.

I like to believe in reformation, and all that. But when you look at some of the worlds greatest serial killers, terroists, etc, there is no doubt that only death can be a valid punishment.

In conclusion, a person who can and does kill without remorse, should not be allowed to enjoy the thing he enjoys robbing of others.

Just my 2 cents.

In UK Capital punish ment is long gone we only have life sentences etc and our jails are over crowding so maybe we should bring it back.But i am against it what if we wrongly excusted someone and it was not him who did the crime.

I firmly believe that no action you take, should be able to rob you of the most basic right, witch is the rigth to live and therefore im against capital punishment.
There are many ohter reasons to be against it, first off it is infact more expensive to excute a prisoner than sentence him to life in prison, theres always the problem that theres no way to go back if the guy was innocent and last but not least, people might actually make amense (im no religous though so maybe its not the appropiate word) while they are in prison.

It's also easy to say that rapist, child molesters and such deserves to die, since while they certainly are only counterproductive to society, i'd like to think that society is better than just killing them off.

In the words of Ghandi. "Eye for an eye, will make the whole world blind"

Let just do it the LaMB way then... no need for death but a fate worse then it... Your body is moving, you know it's moving, but you are not the one moving it... you are awake... and have no control, see someone you love, you cannot say... see someone you know die, you cannot cry... ...

that is the best way to kill a A-List Criminal... Kill their heart...

BTW, If you dunno wat's LaMB refer to Danny's post about a Blogging contest a few days earlier...

I used to be for it, but now I am not sure. I don't know if another human being has the right to take away another human being's life away.

Sometimes you see criminals on the news, like child rapiest and murderers, and I think they deserve to die for their crimes. But can/should one human being take away another human being's life away?

on the other side, can you imagine having the job of taking people's lives away?

I didn't know there's capital punishment in Japan.

In my opinion, capital punishment should be carried out in some cases. So, I'm for the death penalty. In Czech, the highest penalty is just the life sentence though.

People who won't stop killing others do exist, and they should be wiped out of the world in order to protect citizens. This means that somebody who murdered for the second time definitely deserves to die. You ask why? Because he already got his second chance, but he didn't reflect on his wrongdoings and did it again. And if you give him only some 10-year-sentence, he'll most likely kill somebody again once he's released from the prison. This is because it's rooted in his personality, and that's something you can't do anything about.

Here, in Canada, we don't have death verdict anymore. But we do have in prison-for-life

Don't approve, I don't think any human, no matter what the reason, have the right to take the life of other human

Captial things...depends on the situation...and the person itself...Complex as humans...

Opps...sorry for the double post...i meant capital punishment...Don't know why i typed things...

I see people are for and against capital punishment and use financial reasons for it. I think that's besides the point. The question is more like should we do the only thing that will for sure prevent a killer from killing again.

If we build a system where say 90% of the murders are solved and capital punishment isn't uncommon for cold blooded killers, then we would not only reduce the number of repeaters we would also scare away some potiential killers. The result is less random (innocent) people being killed.

So the question is: who do you want to live? It's damn hard if not impossible to get both even though that is what we all prefer.

difficult subject to comment on. maybe those prisoners should be brainwashed into becoming good citizens. IMO, a new method should be invented to give justice to the victims. we have to think for both sides not just say that the prisoner does not deserve to die because he took someones life or committed a barbaric act.

Interesting fact here. In the United States, the states of Utah and Idaho still offer the inmate the option of being executed by a firing squad. Most states use lethal injection, but i think the firing squad is a rather archaic way of going about it, yet i feel it has to be the cheapest method overall. The last man to die at a firing squad was in 1996 in Utah i do believe.

I'm don't think we should debate whether the use of executions is morally just or even required. Rather, we should be evaluating the conditions and causes that lead to crime to eliminate the motives. In this case it is money at the rrot of almost every crime even indirectly. Poverty is the most important variable to consider. People will do what they deem necessary to survive, so by keeping a permanent low class of society, a nation can profit from the continual prison state that exists under such conditions. It should be no surprise that my country has the largest prison population in the world. A closer look at the "drug war" reveals that this is another part of the rubix cube of social control over those in poverty. Isn't the world a fascinating place?

three to five officers each press a button and one of them will cause death???
Wtf makes it sound a little sick like if they were doing it like a game show. I also find it kinda wrong that the person gets informed on the day they die and has no chance of a final meeting with their family.

I understand capital punishment is only given to the worst criminals but I myself cannot support it just because what if the guy ended up being innocent? I am sure it has happened in the past somewhere, where an innocent man was put to death and years later they find out he wasn't guilty after all. At least with life imprisonment there is a chance of redemption.

I'm totally against Capital Punishment.
Even if the murderer is really evil I don't think he deserves Capital Punishment.
A long imprisonment is a better option.

I'm a new user here on Dannychoo but I've been a frequent visitor to this site and this is my first time posting... so nice to meet you guys!

Many of you seem to believe in this "eye for an eye" mentality... That if somebody kills somebody else that person deserves death...

Many of you also neglect to understand that "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."

When is the circle of violence going to end?! A state approved murder just has a "Justice" label slapped on it therefore that makes it "Right" and "Just." So according to that murder is A-OK as long as a jury of your peers believes in it. At least thats how it is in America where I live.

Anyway violence just breeds more violence, crime breeds more crime. I personally believe in the saying "Locks only keep honost men out," meaning if somebody wants to seriously commit a crime it is going to happen regardless of capital punishment or not...

Just my two cents lol again nice to meet you guys

I'm going to just say that I'm undecided. I don't want to join in the debate. I have my own personal opinions towards both ways but I can't make a full on decision.

>Does your region carry out capital punishment and do you agree?
There is now capital punishment in Estonia. And I am not sure if this is a good or a bad thing. On the one side, someone has to pay to keep them alive, but on the other hand maybe life in prison is an even better punishment than relatively quick death...

No final meeting? And by freakin' hanging?! Jeez. Hanging went the way of the dodo here decades ago.

Capital punishment policies vary by state, but here it's lethal injection. I am against capital punishment myself--it's overly cruel, very hypocritical, and due to how fervently those sentenced to death appeal, it's actually more expensive than a life sentence! It makes no sense anymore. Oh, and another warped thing about US capital punishment: they won't execute a prisoner unless he's healthy. So, they end up spending tons of money to cure death row inmates with cancer, only to kill them. WTF, dude.

As I see it, capital punishment only perpetuates a cycle of death and fear in society. Capital punishment is a scare tactic, to create horror in the minds of people that they would not ever think of committing a crime.

A memorable quote from the movie Swordfish.

"Terrorist states, Stanley. Someone must bring their war to them. They bomb a church, we bomb 10. They hijack a plane, we take out an airport. They execute American tourist, we tactically nuke an entire city. Our job is to make terrorism so horrific that is becomes unthinkable to attack Americans."

Proper logic?

As far as my view goes, I wouldn't want granted a welcomed punishment to a criminal who has done despicable crimes against my family and society.

Murderers who go on a spree of death already know they will die. It's a freedom, to escape their wretched lives. I'd rather they live that life for as long as they can in an even more wretched state. They took life to have their life taken, why give them that luxury?

Lots of people are saying how it's wrong to kill anyone no matter what the reason and saying that a criminal still has human rights that need protecting.

In my opinion prisons should be protecting the public, they should be protecting the innocent, they should be protecting the victims. I really don't think every serious criminal (i.e rapists, child abusers, murderers, repeat offenders) deserves to die, but I also don't think they deserve to live a normal quality of life either, because they have ruined some peoples lives forever, those people can't get that back. So why should a criminal get his life back too?

I'm not for the death sentence, but why should I for example, as a person respect a criminals human rights when he obviously has no respect for other peoples human rights? Human rights should be a two way thing. If a criminal takes away someones basic human rights, then I think the criminal is undeserving of basic human rights.

Criminals should die they only makes this world worst and keeping them in jails needs money food and room is that fair? here in this country if you kill you can get like 25 years in prison and even in prison they continue to commit crimes via cellphone or contacs , in my opinion when someone becomes a criminal of that size you loose your humanity and that thing about " they have human rights they need respect " well tell me they respected the person who they killed? the world would be much better with those people dead , the problem is that many people thinks that if you kill a criminal you become like him , i think that is more important the peace of a country or even the world that a thing like that.
besides don't you think that if you kill one criminal like that you are saving at least more than 3 or 4 people? killing criminals is not only killing is saving lives.

I approve but it really depends on the situation. Let's take the example of Danny said, three men with multiple robbery and murder, it's really a must to execute these kinds of people who just do something bad. If it's just a minimum crime act, maybe a mind torture would work so that the guilty would not do it again, like prisoning him or her. Sometimes when people are in jail, their mind breaks, and if fortunate, they get well and change into better.

Didn't know Japan still had death sentence. In Canada, we don't have it, but I'm really on 2 sides on this matter. First, the sentences aren't long enough even when it's a life sentence, the prisoner as the right to get out of prison after 25 years... However, it costs a lot to keep them in prison and so I think death sentence would be one of the ways to get rid of those spendings.

Key point: Would YOU want to executed?

I believe that all relationships are reciprocal, and as such the taking of a human life in the first degree would be a willing forfeit of your own life. After all if you deny the right of your victim to continue living, what right do you have when the same comes to bite you in the ass?

I agree with capital punishment, but there's the problem of a person being proved actually innocent later on. There was the one case of this guy who was in prison for 15 years only to be released or something like that. But I'm not sure I would like a hanging as the method of punishment.

Wish we had it in the U.K. .As long as the evidence was conclusive, then i don't see a problem. Take a life, lose your life.

Don't you think something is not working in the justice system when a lot of criminals are "repeat offenders"? They just go to prison, leave prison and they kill again. What happens after? Politicians play the blame game and nothing is solved. How many repeat murderers/rapists/scumbags do we need in this world? even more ridiculous is we have to pay for their freakin' sex change (heard this on the news earlier this year)? wtf kinda world are we living in?

In my opinion, the current justice system is too lineant to criminals/offenders. That's why there's cop killers out there because people don't fear the law anymore. I think capital punishment is a good deteriorant against crime. As for human rights...I would you lose your human rights when you kill/rape someone.

As for capital punishment in Canada, there isn't any unfortunately. I've heard on the news that they're planning on bringing it back on the federal level, but I doubt that'll happen as long as the government is chosen based on popularity votes.

Don't think we do hangings here in America anymore.

Well, I suppose there's a difference between life imprisonment and the death penalty. It's not pretty, but the way some criminals act, it's the only option left.

somewhat surprised it's still there, but i believe it should be used more often than letting murderous criminals rot and waste tax payer's money should just be killed in a painful way.

in my opinion, a rope saves a bullet and several cc's of poison... and it's re-usable!
on the serious note, if you kill someone, in my opinion, you have surrendered all your "human rights". all your rights have died along with your victim(s).

AFAIK no Capital Punishment in Victoria, Australia--can't say for the other states. Used to live in the Philippines, though, and it had both capital punishment and police that react like Bubba McGee Sheriffs of the Wild Wild West. IMHO, both countries have it wrong--Philippine National Police are either too hamfisted or else too triggerhappy (doesn't help that the PNP has a reputation for being crooks themselves). On the flipside, Australian cops are just way too nice.

I'd say that Capital Punishment should only be reserved for the most extreme cases, and only in cases wherein the verdict was Guilty BEYOND any reasonable doubt. Punishment must not only fit the crime, it should also be -Punishment-. You do not subject a petty thief to the same kind of punishment as a Serial Killer. I'm a strong proponent that a prison should NOT be comfortable, and that convicts must work to earn their food.

Most importantly, Capital Punishment is pretty much useless if the person you're putting on trial WANTS to die. Nothing else need be said.