Life imprisonment allows people continue to live after committing murder, the victim’s family continues to suffer

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1. The most serious penalty stipulated in the Japanese Penal Code is the death penalty, followed by life imprisonment without a fixed term. It is not unusual for these sentences to be handed down in heinous cases such as murder, but there is an endlessly deep gulf between life and death between the two.

   The perpetrator, who can continue to live while killing, and the victim, who is deprived of a tomorrow he believed would come as a matter of course. Even after the verdict is finalised, the remaining family members continue to suffer between the two. “I want to kill them with my own hands”. A man who had his wife and three children killed expressed his rage in a voice without any power.

   [Continue reading (in Japanese)](https://www.bengo4.com/c_1009/n_17905/)

2. Having the death penalty is barbaric. It does not deter murder in the first degree. It is the state taking vengeance on behalf of the victim’s family and loved ones. And it has a good possibility of putting to death the innocent.

3. Easy to say when the Tax payers are the one letting them live. I myself am a eye for an eye person who doesn’t want to pay for a criminal to live a whole life in prison.

4. It must be awful knowing the person that did awful things to your family is still breathing and was given the mercy of being allowed to live, whilst none was shown to your family.

   I’m not going to complain about the death penalty for the most heinous crimes.

   If they are guilty beyond all doubt, there’s no point in keeping them alive and wasting tax money on them if they’ll never see the light of day again.

5. Until we find a way to 100% prove with zero chance of a mistake that someone did the crime the death penalty should not exist. And unfortunately we still don’t have a way

   False confessions are a thing, botched DNA is a thing, people lying on the stand is a thing, planted evidence is a thing

   If there is even a 0.1% chance that the person sitting in that cell didn’t commit their crime then they shouldn’t be killed for it

   And there will always be that chance

   And last but not least killing someone doesn’t bring your loved ones back to life

6. Death penalty sounds fun and game, until you realize that you are placing too much trust into the police and it is always possible that they are convicting the wrong person.

   I know such cases are relatively few but you can never be sure. For a victim’s family, it is just one petty criminal. But for the police, they have to deal with the possibility of them killing innocent civilians everyday.

   The laws are just working as intended imo.

   Anyway, if those people really want to take revenge, it is always possible to help the murderer to get a lighter sentence to kill them yourselves. Or maybe secretly bring a weapon with you to trial. Since you are obviously in the right here, no one is going to blame you. This is just a personal opinion but I think people can do anything if they really put their mind into it.

7. There is justice even in the prison. They will have “A warmful welcome”.

8. Because killing the perpetrator will help victim’s family so much. /s They should be offered help, including mental help.

   Killing the perperpetrator is easy, but it’s not an actual answer to the needs of these families and of the society.

9. How many innocent people are worth killing? 

   Idk about you, but i do not think any country has or even can make a perfect system for convicting every single criminal without even 1 mistake.

   While I admit it is costly for taxpayers, in a way life imprisonment could be a lot worse for an actual criminal. You don’t get to escape into death. Every day, at least in America, you are told what to do, you are forced to live in tight quarters, barely get to see outside if at all, no privacy, maybe no name (ID number), and sometimes your labor is sold for cheap, while you might be able to wrack up debt using prison services (phones) if you aren’t mentally torurtued in solitary confinement (look up cases in YouTube).

   I assume this isn’t the same in Japan, but living in a cement box for the rest of my life doesn’t sound like a life worth living.

   And I would like to see peer reviewed psychology evidence proving that killing the criminal actually makes the victim’s families lives better before I consider subjecting the chance of an innocent person to a death that may not even be as painless as we perceived it just because they are asleep, or can’t scream or otherwise react doesn’t mean it’s painless. It just makes it so the executioner and witnesses don’t feel bad.

10. I am against the death penalty in all situations. It’s immoral, and has no place in a civilised country.

    The families of murder victims will still suffer either way. Like the father said in the article “Even if he is sentenced to death, there will be no salvation.”

11. Murder the families – problem solved.

12. A woman who was set to get married next month was suddenly kidnapped by three unknown men and confined in a car. They threatened her to reveal her bank account information. Although she complied, the men wrapped multiple layers of adhesive tape around her face and brutally murdered her by striking her head with a hammer dozens of times. Before she died, she managed to send a message to her mother asking for help.

    She was reportedly an only daughter. Her mother campaigned on the streets for years, collecting signatures to ensure that the perpetrators would be sentenced to death.

    All three men were ultimately sentenced to death. In Japan, many people support the continuation of the death penalty system.