The BBC today reports on Amnesty International's criticism of Japanese procedures for executing convicts. Amnesty specifically calls the death penalty in Japan "shameful" for the several reasons.
The condemned person is put in solitary confinement without the ability to talk to or interface with anyone else. Exercise is short and limited, and the prisoner must at all other times be seated.
No date is given the condemned for execution. That means that a condemned person spends every night thinking that it could be his/her last.
Japan seems intent on inflicting the severest and cruelest punishment it can on the condemned. Amnesty reports a large number of psychoses appearing in persons who have received the death sentence. Amnesty calls for an immediate halt in Japan's system of executions. I fully agree.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
JAPAN INFLICTS SEVERE MENTAL ANGUISH ON PEOPLE CONDEMNED TO HANGING
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