Japan executes four prisoners by hanging

i'm completely opposed to the death penalty, but hanging is not the worst way to go, so long as it's by breaking of the neck and not strangulation. so done properly, death should be instantaneous.

that said, capital punishment is barbaric regardless of the means of death.

Straightforward, I'd rather not have my taxes go towards keeping a person alive with a life sentence.

When will the world learn that by using the one force to stop the same force will never work.

Killing to stop killing? Absurd. It's like using fire to put out the flames.

Find the opposite to the force and use that to make a balance.

What's concerning about this story is that these death penalties are 'carried out in secret'

Japan is very strict with punishment laws as it is. I can only imagine what would justify the death penalty. In some Countries of Asia, possession of a single joint can get You the Death Penalty.

Actually 'always_there' sometimes another fire is used to fight another. However, capital punishment is not used to deter people from killing another person. That point is well known and the argument that it is the reason for its existence is flawed considering the severity of the crime that must be committed in order for a person to receive the death penalty.

Capital punishment is for people that society deems to too dangerous to live amongst people and have committed the most grievous of murders. That I reckon is the reason you do not see all of those murderous 'gang bangers' you all have in the states up for death. In Australia we abolished the death penalty ages ago... however, like Canada we do not have near the number of issues as the US... population aside.

i love it

As it is, I'm opposed to the death sentence, but understand that it has popular support to would take time for any government to abolish, but hanging? And in a society I thought was fairly sophisticated and advanced. This strikes me as a particularly cruel method.

I say keep doing it. Can you imagine how much carnage there would be if people just had a free ride for life for killing someone else. I say anyone that molests a child should join these guys

Good. Looks like Japan has it's head on straight (no pun intended) when it comes to how to treat it's criminals. The death penalty should be used more in America. Maybe then we wouldn't have all these gangs being run from leaders behind bars.

Never new Japan was this serious, i would think china would do something like this o.o

Hanging inhumane? Is it more than lethal injection, the firing squad, electric chair, gas? As an American I don't think I have a right to protest when my own country uses the death penalty for punishment.

Oh murder is so wrong you see
both the bible and the courts agree
yet, the state allowed to murder in the chair

Phil Ochs

Stop killing and start educating!

The death penalty doesn't deter people from commiting crime.

Most European countries have banned capital punishment, as well as Canada and Mexico. The United States is the only country where we think killing babies is wrong, while it's okay to kill soldiers and criminals.

The government should not have the power to kill. The government basically has full rights over it's population. With a flick of a pen our rights can be taken away.

which is MORE cruel... locking a person in a box all their life or killing them?

allowing muderers and others who genuenly and obviously do not diserve even the air in their lungs to live is worse than the executions. and if you're going to kill someone... it doesn't really matter how. death is death.

@TabulaRasa..... another fine example of my 40th Law... http://www.plusaf.com/falklaws.htm#40th ....

"Mmmmm still that doesn't have me convinced. Plus, over the course of their stay they will have cost more than putting them to death... if I'm doing my math right [which could be an error as right now I'm at a constant state of being tired]"

you're ignoring the point of all of the legal fees and wasted time and money of the appeals process and ALL the taxpayer-paid crap that ALL of the legal and bureaucratic entities have to go through when someone is sentenced to death.... it goes on for EVER and the legal beagles get hundreds of dollars PER HOUR for years and year.

it IS cheaper to feed, clothe and house 'em for life.
really! do all the math, not just half.

ps.
you're not willing to feed a person with your taxes, but you're willing to pay your taxes to KILL someone?

interesting world-view......

@TabulaRasa.... and that's one of the differcnces between Russia, where not a hell of a lot of people are emigrating TO and the USA, which currently seems to be having trouble keeping people OUT.

fundamentally, what you're saying is, that if a bunch of people get together [society, courts, etc.,] and agree on a punishment [capital punishment] for whatever reasons they agree [like some of the reasons you posed,] it's ok for the group, by consensus and agreement, to end the life of another person [the party found guilty] while it's not ok for that person to have ended the life of someone else [the original victim....]

so, if one person does it, it's criminal, but if a group does it, it's ok.

that's exactly the kind of "thinking" i'm talking about, and what most folks don't do ANY "thinking about" before they vote FOR capital punishment.

if my writings get one person to think a little more about that, i've succeeded in my goals.

if anyone doesn't think any more about it, it's not i who's lost. we all have.

and the same for appeals.... there are quite a few people today involved in groups who are looking into the cases of "criminals" lined up for death sentences, and finding facts that exonerate the accused.

what say you on that? roll the dice? appeals are designed as a process to POSSIBLY unearth information which might ALSO prove the convicted one is INNOCENT. what's your take on THAT strange philosophy?

ok lets see here

life in prison = lots of $

length of rope = $5 for nice rope

on the plus side they can go green and use the rope again & again.