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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=24364" target="_blank">Japan hangs three convicted murderers</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/16-misc-world" target="_blank">Misc World</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=BartSimpson" target="_blank">BartSimpson</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2007-08-24 17:58:30

[BartSimpson]

Way to go Japan!

[DerbyX]

I have no problem with capital punishment but were those people actually guilty?

Japan is a country with a history of relying a great deal on confessions and false confessions is disturbingly common in human psychology.

Christ John Mark Karr is still confessing guilt. It defies logic to falsely confess.

[BartSimpson]

DerbyX DerbyX:

I have no problem with capital punishment but were those people actually guilty?

Japan is a country with a history of relying a great deal on confessions and false confessions is disturbingly common in human psychology.

Christ John Mark Karr is still confessing guilt. It defies logic to falsely confess.

Japan also goes to great lengths to determine guilt in capital cases and no one in Japan gets the death penalty based on circumstantial evidence. This is where I differ with the law in most US states in that circumstantial evidence should never result in an execution as there *must* be reasonable doubt in such a case. If I'm putting someone to death I don't want to know that it just looks like they deserve this, I want to know they deserve it.

Otherwise, lock them up for life so there's a chance that they might be exonerated later on. Or, sentenced to death later on if concrete evidence is presented to prove the case.

And John Mark Karr should be offed just for being creepy.

[DerbyX]

When I hear about someone like David Milgard it makes me see red. I can't imagine stewing in a prison cell knowing I'm innocent.

DNA technology couldn't have come fast enough.

[BartSimpson]

I agree. DNA tech has also put some people in jail who thought they'd gotten away with their crimes.

[DerbyX]

Those who oppose the death penalty often do on the possible innocent grounds we have already touched on. Thats makes sense,

Others oppose it on religious grounds stating that its every persons "god given" right to live and voluntarily repent.

They often cite this bastard: Son of Sam.

I don't understand their logic. They believe in a god that knows everything so he already knows whether a person will repent in the future so preventing their execution seems superfolous and given the possibility for escape/release and recidivism it seems foolish.