How to live and die sentenced to death in Japan Bashny.Net

Japan, along with the United States remains one of the few developed countries that retain the death penalty.





From 2000 to 2009, Japan had been sentenced to death 112 people, 46 in relation to the sentence carried out. The average suicide bomber waits penalty 6 years old - he is killed by hanging. At the same time 86% of Japanese in favor of retaining the death penalty.

Only in 2010 the Japanese government for the first time a little slightly opened to local journalists look like a prison for the bombings. It is known that such prisons for 7 bombings, but their location was not disclosed. Even on this tour of Japanese journalists were taken on a bus with the windows closed.

By the death penalty in Japan sentenced only for murder with aggravating circumstances. There are 10 criteria on which it determined "aggravation". Among them, for example, such as "Do greatly worried relatives of the murdered" and "Is this murder has caused a public outcry».





The Japanese Justice is proud that 99% of sentences in the end turn out to be true. Over the past 50 years, only once it became clear that a suicide bomber was sentenced unfairly. They found a 63-year-old man, who by that time had spend 17 years on death row for the murder of 4-year-old girl. It is worth adding that the Japanese justice still holds the record in one area: it courts issue 99, 8% of convictions, and in this respect the country even interrupt each semi-Asiatic Power, Russia, where such sentences 99, 2%.





Long spent on death row - is one of the conditions of the Japanese system. It is believed that during this time may emerge some new circumstances of the murder and sentenced theoretically could be innocent. On average, since the execution of the sentence until it passes 5 years and 11 months. All this time spent in the condemned cell measuring 2x5 meters, it is forbidden to watch television, listen to the radio and use the computer. At the time of his release, he still put in all 3 books (his choice). But the prison encourages suicide play a board game "Go" - with yourself. Also, with yourself, you can play chess. To better monitor the prisoner in his cell clock electric light.





Bomber derive a walk for half an hour 3 times in the summer and 2 times in the winter, but every day he can take a shower duration of 15 minutes. Meals prisoners modest and is only 1500 calories a day. Meager food stimulates the work of suicide bombers, it encourages the leadership of the prison. Earnings prisoners per month (for gluing boxes or assembly of simple components) is 4-5 thousand yen (about $ 50-60). With that money you can buy additional products.

The bomber learns about the impending execution half an hour before her. To him (at the request of the prisoner) comes Buddhist or Shinto priest. The Japanese Christians can do is to pray ourselves at a wooden cross in a special room. Prisoner hanged in a special room. On the ceiling there fastened the hook, and the floor is a special hatch.





The bomber becomes a rope around his neck on the hatch, and in the next room three guards simultaneously press - triggered only one of them (this is done to one of the 3 did not know exactly who actually brought the sentence), and hatch opens.





After 20 minutes, coming pronounced dead. The relatives of the prisoner could later take the body and bury it on your own. Each of the 3 executioners receives a premium of 20,000 yen (about US $ 230-250).

Public opinion in Japan overwhelmingly to retain the death penalty. In 1999, she performed for 79% of Japanese, then in 2009 - already 86%. Against Executions - only 6% (the rest had no opinion). Various human rights groups of white people (such as Human Rights Watch) methodically think again urge the Japanese government and abolish the death penalty. And every time the government also methodically explain the human rights activists that the Japanese have their own cultural norms.