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Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« on: July 05, 2018, 08:50:25 PM »
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/06/japan-executes-sarin-gas-attack-cult-leader-shoko-asahara-and-six-members-reports

23 years after Aum Shinrikyo killed several people in a nerve gas attack on a Tokyo subway, seven of the people responsible were hung in Tokyo today.
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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2018, 09:12:08 PM »
I wish no ill on any man but I heartily approve of the development.
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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2018, 09:13:31 PM »
Slight tangent, but I had no idea Japan had the death penalty. Hanging no less.
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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2018, 09:45:30 PM »
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/death-penalty-execution-japan-hanging--10797256

https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/japan-executions-inside-the-secretive-efficient-death-chambers/news-story/e650b790265fcf2dafc2f8ba9fa1e52f

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1306683/Pictured-time-Japan-opens-doors-death-chambers.html

I have read several articles over the years about how Japan conducts the death penalty.  A couple of things of note: the prisoner's family is generally notified only after the sentence has been carried out; and you can be on death row for years, and the first thing the prisoner knows about the actual date of the execution is the morning when it is done.  The warden gives you about a hour notice; long enough for you to pray with a Shinto priest and prepare yourself.  The Japanese authorities think it is cruel for a prisoner to know the death date long in advance and get anxious about it.  So instead, all the prisoners get anxious when the warden appears on death row in the morning; whom, if anyone, will be chosen that day.
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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2018, 10:27:49 PM »
Too bad they didn't behead the condemned with a katana, just for old time's sake.

I suppose that would be too honorable a death for them.
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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2018, 10:35:33 PM »
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... you can be on death row for years, and the first thing the prisoner knows about the actual date of the execution is the morning when it is done.  The warden gives you about a hour notice; long enough for you to pray with a Shinto priest and prepare yourself.  The Japanese authorities think it is cruel for a prisoner to know the death date long in advance and get anxious about it.  So instead, all the prisoners get anxious when the warden appears on death row in the morning; whom, if anyone, will be chosen that day.

So the condemned prisoner doesn't get that fancy final meal? That's cruel and unusual punishment!
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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2018, 10:36:52 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on July 05, 2018, 09:12:08 PM
I wish no ill on any man but I heartily approve of the development.

It ain't no man.
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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2018, 10:38:58 PM »
Sushimi, VERY OLD sushimi
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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2018, 10:55:35 PM »
Quote from: Ben on July 05, 2018, 09:13:31 PM
Slight tangent, but I had no idea Japan had the death penalty. Hanging no less.

Dude. It's Japan.
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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2018, 11:03:08 PM »
They give the condemned a choice: Hanging or multiple flights on United.
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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2018, 11:03:46 PM »
I'm totally fine with hanging for scum that does stuff like this.  Beheading with a sword is far too honorable a fate for people that do crap like that.
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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2018, 11:42:43 PM »
Quote from: Warren on July 05, 2018, 11:03:08 PM
They give the condemned a choice: Hanging or multiple flights on United.

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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #12 on: July 06, 2018, 06:29:24 AM »
MillCreek noted:

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The Japanese authorities think it is cruel for a prisoner to know the death date long in advance and get anxious about it.

Ha.  How empathic.  I think that's more cruel than knowing a date certain.

Years ago, Unit 731 would have been a good place to send him.

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https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/17/world/unmasking-horror-a-special-report-japan-confronting-gruesome-war-atrocity.html

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Half a century after the end of the war, a rush of books, documentaries and exhibitions are unlocking the past and helping arouse interest in Japan in the atrocities committed by some of Japan's most distinguished doctors.

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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2018, 07:23:42 AM »
Ah, Unit 731.

Just one more reason why Japan should have been nuked out of existence.
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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #14 on: July 06, 2018, 08:17:53 AM »
In the USA, SJWs would be protesting against the supplier of the rope . . .
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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #15 on: July 06, 2018, 09:47:33 AM »
It's about time.
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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #16 on: July 06, 2018, 11:11:18 AM »
Quote from: 230RN on July 06, 2018, 06:29:24 AM

REF (Not for the faint of heart):
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/17/world/unmasking-horror-a-special-report-japan-confronting-gruesome-war-atrocity.html


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"There's a possibility this could happen again," the old man said, smiling genially. "Because in a war, you have to win."


Scary.
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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #17 on: July 06, 2018, 11:16:57 AM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on July 06, 2018, 11:11:18 AM
Scary.

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Re: Sarin attack organizer executed in Japan
« Reply #18 on: July 07, 2018, 08:01:34 AM »
The Japanese that I have met are *unfailingly* polite and *unfailingly* courteous. Refreshing.
And fearless.
The one story about WWII I ever got out of one of my Grand Uncles was of holding his M1 Garand with rags on the fore-end because his barrel was so hot, it was burning through the wood. He had a *deep* respect for the Japanese. As I do.
Unit 731 was an atrocity. Nanking was an atrocity. Ever read "Fly Boys"? One particularly sadistic Jap Colonel would cut the living organs out of pilots and eat them raw, before their dying eyes. Horrible. Good read.
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