In Japan, criminals hanged.

Photo above: a room with a figure of Buddha in a niche behind the curtain - a room for punishment. In Japan, criminals hanged.



curtain opens, the offender led into a room with a hatch in the floor and put in a red square. Ring to the right - to the ropes. Behind the glass are those who are overseeing the execution.



In the next room on the wall to the right - three buttons numbered. Prison staff must simultaneously press on them to load the mechanism that opens the trapdoor in the floor.



Premises for the execution of the other side. Watching the execution, after the hatch is lowered and the person falls into it on a rope down to the ground floor to secure the death of the condemned.



C 2000 to 2009 in Japan executed 46 people.