I have no regrets.
Posted on 08/27/2010 3:04:16 PM PDT by Niuhuru
The sparsely furnished room with wood panelling and blue curtains could be an annex to any conference room.
However the mundanity masks the dark secrets of one of the world's largest economies.
For this is where Japan executes those condemned to death by its courts. The last two criminals for whom these walls were their final sight of the world were the killers Kazuo Shinozawa, 59, and Hidenori Ogata, 33, who were hanged last month.
And for the first time, the public has been allowed to see the Tokyo Detention House because the country's Justice Minister Keiko Chiba, a known opponent of capital punishment, has decided to give journalists access.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
They freeze them to death?
state of the art!
They hang them. How creative is that? Hell, if they froze them to death they could say they died of natural causes...
>> Japan opens door to the chilling execution chamber
>> They freeze them to death?
To paraphrase Mrs. Tick:
“SHUT THE DANG DOOR to the execution chamber! You’re letting all the cold out!”
>> However the mundanity masks the dark secrets of one of the world’s largest economies.
I have failed entire English classes for writing a sentence like that. Whoever penned that grotesque thing ought to be hung.
That’s a damn good idea! Take em to Antartica, put em off the plane tell em “you are free and on your own, Now get out of the way so we can take off”.
Japan knows how to buld prisons, ever hear of a prison riot in Japan, don’t think so.
I would rather be in a prison in japan than the US because they house you in seprate rooms and you wouldn’t have to worry about having a “Bubba Experiance” if you are a guy or getting it from a butch dy*e if you are a gal.
I just have to say though, that the Japanese are behind Texas in terms of executions on a yearly basis.
Hate to be a pedant but “hung?” I believe it’s “hanged.”
And I’ve seen the author in his banana hammock at the beach — and he IS HUNG!
I have no regrets.
I watched a locked up abroad episode where an American woman was locked up in Japan for smuggling hash. She says the experience improved her.
Usually these shows are a horror show on how bad foreign prisons are; but not this episode.
Was the irony inherent in that last sentence intentional?
Some of these writers are so melodramatic. In Asia they treat prisons as prisons, places of punishment.
“I watched a locked up abroad episode where an American woman was locked up in Japan for smuggling hash. She says the experience improved her.”
I don’t doubt it. They treat criminals as criminals, not as people who need to be rehabilitated. Furthermore, how stupid do you have to be to smuggle drugs in Asia, anywhere?
>> Hate to be a pedant but “hung?” I believe it’s “hanged.”
Hey, I TOL ya I failed English.
By the way, I’ve never met a pedant Aggie. Us Longhorns, we *live* to be pedant. Once we learn how to spell it, that is. :-)
>> Was the irony inherent in that last sentence intentional?
As far as YOU know. ;-)
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