Corrections/nuances: Portugal did abolish the death penalty in the 1800s. It also abolished the death penalty in 1976 because it had been reinstated for military purposes during WW1. Deathpenaltyinfo.org recognizes 1976 as the formal date. The point of that segment, and I will be clearer about assumptions/definitions on screen in future videos for sure so that’s my bad, is that a new constitution after the fall of an authoritarian leader has been associated with the formal abolition of the death penalty. That happened after Salazar with the new constitution. Japan also signed a new constitution, but with no formal abolition. Researchers found (source in description) that lynching predicts modern executions, but when you account for slavery - lynching does not, but slavery does. There’s a lot of variance in these studies, and the level that injustices in the past have an impact on today is not something I, a “professional” youtuber in a bedroom, am going to be able to explain well. Adverbs like “intimately” do not help because that’s vague and unclear writing. I do think this can all be true (would like to hear other’s thoughts) while it also still being important to point out that this makes the US different from Japan. As of right now, I don’t know how I stand on the death penalty. My instinctual feeling when someone kills 31 people by burning them alive like I mention at the end is yes. As it would be if my family was brutally murdered by someone. That being said, the non zero probability, especially in Japan with its high prosecution rate, makes the risk quite uncomfortable that I start thinking - better not. But then I can think that, that makes me some moral saint - that I would not take that chance with the death penalty - but I and the majority of the world would take that chance with locking someone in a cell for extended periods of time. So I’m not sure my morality is consistent. Long story short, I don’t really know.
Discrimination in capital punishment was explicitly written in many states’ laws during slavery. Black people - (whether slaves or not) - faced the death penalty for crimes that were not even be eligible for death if committed by a white person.
Oh, the poor, misunderstood criminals! How utterly tragic that they are deprived of the luxury of a handy calendar reminder for their impending execution. Who could bear the heartache of such an oversight? Truly, Japanese society’s blatant disregard for their need to meticulously plan such significant life events is beyond comprehension. It’s not as if these convicts took the effort to book an appointment with their victims, thoughtfully ensuring they were fully aware of the exact date and time they’d be brutally slaughtered. "Excuse me, would next Tuesday at 3 PM suit you for your untimely demise?" Really, imagine the shock and horror these CONVICTS must endure, facing their end without a day marked in their otherwise busy calendars. How inhumane to rob them of the opportunity to prepare like it's a dentist appointment. Truly, it's society that has failed them, not the other way around. Japanese laws, shockingly, don't bend over backwards to pamper and coddle criminals the way Western legal systems do. Imagine that, a legal system that prioritizes actual justice over the comfort of those who have wreaked havoc on innocent lives. Heaven forbid! What a monstrous concept, that the focus should be on the victims who will never see another tomorrow, rather than on the sensitivities of those who brought about their untimely end. So, spare me the melodramatic sob stories and crocodile tears. Don’t project your self-righteous, virtue-signaling nonsense onto other countries that don’t coddle convicts. If only you could channel all this empathetic energy into supporting victims rather than lionizing those who wronged them. But no, please, do go on about the grave injustice of not catering to the meticulous schedules of those who have caused unimaginable suffering. After all, it’s far more important to maintain the pristine image of moral superiority, isn’t it?
@@jax5683 You’re arguing against the death penalty, but here I was pointing out that if we have it, convicts shouldn’t get a scheduled execution date. After all, why should they know when it’s coming? Their victims certainly didn’t get a courteous heads-up.
@@Samira_m84Aww how dare they not give a date? Man has some busy schedules. Can you even imagine just going about your day and suddenly it's your day? Can't be the victims of the perpetrator. Definitely!
Actually, those 7 people probably expected a peaceful death at an old age, surrounded by their children and grandchildren. They probably didn't live in fear of a violent death, knowing that it could happen any day.
From time immemorial societies have removed those they know are a serious danger, it's truly astonishing how many people today can be deluded into wanting to keep them around in any capacity. How many lives would be saved if judges were tried as accessories to any crimes the killers they let out commit in the future?
Stop wasting time talking about unimportant things (the one that k'd 7) and focus on what matters: the innocent who are wrongly convicted. Japan's "justice system" is more biased and corrupt than the yank one, with MANY innocents wrongly convicted and imprisoned. If you ignorantly believe "innocent people are never convicted", then you aren't qualified to talk about this.
Utah, Idaho, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Oklahoma still allow the firing squad as a backup method over lethal injection. The most recent execution by firing squad was 2010 in Utah.
@@BrilliantDesignOnline 😂🤔 They could always use an all tile room. Then you can just hose it all down. You'd have to use pistol calibers though. That way it doesn't overpenetrate and then damage the room.
what the heck is that death rooom contraption, multiple rooms, a spinning religion panel, a moral dilemma button, feels like an escape room straight out of zero escape
They have the delayed multi buttons because executions are seen as an unclean act that would taint the soul so to keep from making someone become unclean spiritually they make it ambiguous as to who did it
I assume that the religious statue panel didn't literally rotate, it was probably just that way for making the animation look nice. A staff member would probably place the appropriate figure in the altar earlier that morning based on what religion was on file for the prisoner. To change the statue, they'd probably remove the statue and get the other statue from a storage cupboard.
@@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74 It is a common feature in a lot of execution methods. Firings often had a blank or dummy round handed out amid the live cartridges so that each shooter could think that might not have fired a fatal shot.
@@andrewweitzman4006 yes but this is especially important for Shinto as becoming unclean is a pretty bad thing to become societal. It wasnt until the meji restoration that the caste system involving Shinto spirituality was actually being reformed away. Executioners, grave diggers, butchers, fishermen, and trash collectors, other essentials, beggars criminals, and the descendants of those people were burakumin and werent consider people even into the modern era, but the government has been trying to undo those harmful traditions since the meji restoration, but traditionalist do make that pretty difficult.
in russia they put the death penelty on hold changed it to life (until death ) in prison , and you dont want to be there . the day they changed the law many prisoners commited suicide .they would have rather been hanged than serve life in prison.
Evil design eh? Their victims didn’t know the day they were going to die, and were not given any time to make out a will, eat a snack and pray. Their ends came with extreme suffering as in the case of the 36 in the fire. The killer however is given a swift and sudden end. You still want me to feel guilty that the US and Japan use the death penalty?
There’s almost always some case that can make anyone feel good in the government killing someone for them. Point is, that system has to have delimitations and rules, and even pretending you can make every lawmaker or voter agree on where to draw the lines, you’d still end up with misshaps, only misshaps in imprisonment can be worked around way better than the finality of death. And the way that the japanese system handles the quirks in implementation, only makes those misshaps seem worse (like the wrongfully accused guy who spent 30+ years). It’s like people see bad being punished and then stop thinking…
@@buriedghostlady To be clear, the whole affair will always be distasteful. I have never understood, nor would I be a part of those people that stand outside the gates of these execution sites, holding signs and cheering when the sentence is carried out. Isn't the point you are raising more of an issue with the justice system of these countries rather that the death penalty? How are they getting these wrong and imprisoning innocent people in the first place?
@@TheSaturnV But the justice system and the death penalty are not two disconnected things? I think that's that person's point. Like the death penalty is simply a tool for the justice system, a tool that can be misused.
@@TheSaturnV Reminds me of reports I read about fake news about rapes happening in Manipur, NE India, which incensed people and prompted them to encourage revenge rape, and leading to riots. Which I can imagine will be used as justification by some governments for censorship
That story about the arson attack is so bizarre too - it happened at Kyoto Animation’s main studio (A Silent Voice, Haruhi Suzumiya, K-ON!) and took place because the perpetrator believed his submission to an animation contest they ran plagiarized his work (it obviously didn’t). Absolutely wild loss
i was just thinking about what a horrible way to die this death penalty is when he said about people being burned to death, makes you think twice, although i still think death penalty should be abolished - innocent people have been executed. i'm an animator too by the way, retired.
7:19 Lethal injections also have the highest rate of botchery out of all the methods. The idea of being conscious and in in excruciating pain whilst unable to move or give away any signals of my suffering is something truly terrifying.
What in the lethal injection would cause pain? All that happens is serum K+ increases until myocardial repolarization is no longer possible. I haven't truly researched the topic, but I'm curious to know where your fear comes from?
@cam609lee The part that kills you is painful, and if the parts that put you to sleep and numb you aren't enough, or lacking in general, you end up in agony but unable to move as the muscle relaxants tend to work.
@@cam609lee Lethal Injection is a multi-step process where they first sedate the prisoner, then give them a numbing serum, and then finally the lethal injection. The issue arises when either of the previous two are not done properly. This can leave the victim aware of what is happening, and the lethal injection is not painless. There is at least one account from a survivor of a botched injection. He said it was as if liquid fire was being put into his veins and was being chocked at the same time.
@@cam609lee The whole issue with lethal injections is that companies aren't willing to sell the desired chemicals to produce the injection and that many medical practitioners aren't willing to be the ones to administer it. As such, improvisation takes place, substitute ingredients are found that don't tick all of the requirements, personal without all the needed skills gets put in charge.
@flxible431 I agree but I feel like more diverse opinions in the comments would be a benefit. Being from the US, I am more interested in what Japanese people think.
You basically answered your own question about Japan's homicide rate being low. Japan is almost entirely Japanese. That is why the homicide rate and violent crime rate is much lower. Making a country more "diverse" changes that. There is more conflict (from all sides) and more crime. That's just a fact.
How is this a problem with the penalty and not the judicial system? Seems like the examples you're giving are ones where innocent people were sentenced. That's pretty flawed.
The amount of people who do not understand why this is evil is saddening. Did people not hear how easy it is to be falsely convicted it is from the video? Did they not hear about the people falsely put on death's row? The cop who withheld an innocent's person alibi for years, condemning him to a tortorous existence and ever-present threat of death? Do people not understand the concept of false imprisonment? Do people not understand how important it is to humanely treat criminals? I'm always reminded of the following quote whith situations like this: “A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky In my experience, it is one of the most important ones to understand. Most important to learn and practice.
Bruh, problems in judicial and police systems are another matter. They should be considered in light of a DP policy in a given place to be sure, but the system here looked at, in isolation is NOT inherently brutal nor evil.
Government incompetence and corruption is the best argument against the death penalty. Too many innocent people are exonerated after decades in prison or facing and fighting the death penalty in court (which actually makes the death penalty more expensive for taxpayers than keeping someone alive and in prison for the rest of their lives)
@@DIVERSERNAMEthere is no moral conflict. The system, not people decides who dies, absolves all of the guilt of killing the inmate, as it was he who did it to himself. Boom done, argument over. Honestly the “moral argument” is the worst one to make especially in our immoral society lmao, just tell people it costs money and they’ll hop on board with you.
@@mikepalmer1971 To get to the death row in Japan (and pretty much anywhere else) you have to do something so big and messed up the chances you got there by accident are pretty much non-existent.
@@El_Loto_Azúl there were 2 separate examples in the video of that happening. And in the US, according to death penalty info, for every 8.3 executions, one person is exonerated afterwards
the idea that "two of the kill switches dont work" is probably a lie. it's probably a 3-button AND switch that only trips when all three of the buttons are depressed, and the story of two of them not working is circulated to give people an out, emotionally. "my button probably didn't kill him"
@@diogorodrigues747they only do that so they don’t have to hold themselves up to the standards of a “developed” country. By all metrics they are. It’s just more advantageous to them to say they are still a “developing” country.
I imagine the reason the death penalty was abolished in those countries with authoritarian regimes was because they massively abused it; so when the regime was ousted, the people were never willing to take that risk again. Of course this ousting never fully happened in Japan, and you could argue the country is to this day quite authoritarian in many ways. The question is more complicated in countries that have always been fairly democratic: there, I feel, it becomes more a question of conservatives against progressives; which is shown nicely in the US too.
@@Marconius6 Yeah, although here in the States, it's a bit more complicated. While it is largely a conservative vs liberal thing, it isn't a universal one, as there are a lot of conservatives, generally the ones with libertarian tendencies who do oppose the death penalty on principle, plus other conservatives who want it narrowed, even if not in favor of abolition. Our conservatism has always had and does have a significant skepticism toward government power so the lines on the right often get blurred on this issue. It did use to be politically toxic to oppose it(big reason why Bush, Sr. won in '88) but the country is much more libertarian on criminal justice than it used to be and that's shown on the right too.
Is it possible that the low crime rate in Japan is DUE to the fear of death penalty? And the high shooting and stabbing rates in USA and UK respectively are DUE to the lack of Death penalty? What are your thoughts on that?
@@G5rry Are you kidding me? People use this as an expression. This has has nothing to do with "erm, you're wrong". Are you a linguist? Do you know the history of commonly used expressions? If you talked to people, you would probably hear people use this exact same expression. Neither of these are wrong. You are not an authority on commonly used phrases. Once you show me your linguistic degree and not some self proclaimed idea in a comment section, maybe i can start listening to you.
@@starrynight_reverie he's right, though, regardless of whether you like that. From Wikipedia: 'Colloquial misuse of the phrase "begs the question" also occurs with an entirely dissimilar sense in place of "prompts a question" or "raises a question".'
Controversial opinion: I don't think the Death Penalty is bad, its just been done badly, especially with our most recent examples being in the US, where everything that can be done wrong, will be done wrong.
There is no way to do it well, though, unless you consider the possibility of the executed actually having been innocent as acceptable, you're gonna have to put in so many checks that keeping someone imprisoned for life ends up way cheaper (with the added benefit of still being able to release them if you made a mistake). This is ALREADY the case in the us, death penalty DOES cost more, and STILL its not enough checks cuz innocent ppl have been executed there before. It just doesn't work
I am more concerned with Japans juridical system and their unusually high conviction rate than I am concerned with them having death penalty. Theoretically the tax payers should not be burdened with the life support of people that can never safely be let into society. My only problem with capital punishment is a distrust in the juridical system and potential tyranny that can exploit it, so from this perspective I would rather see an overhaul of Japans archaic court system than a complete abandonment of capital punishment.
the US did the kill switch guilt thing too but it was a firing squad and only like one or two have real rounds vs blanks so nobody has to know they killed someone - fun fact thats STILL legal in some states
I do understand you emotionally, but I’d rather you paid attention to the differences between generosity and human rights. The former is random feeling whereas the latter is a systematic theory that depends on deductive reasoning. The most typical example of deductive reasoning is math. If x and y are lines which are parallel, then they don’t cross. Here, you can’t ask why because it is something called an axiom. In deductive logic, you can prove many properties of lines or triangles but the absence of crossing points. This is true to human rights, too. Axiom; you have rights which can’t be alienated from you. See? Perhaps, you may think like this; then let’s change the axiom! Good news. It’s already tried by some enthusiastic people, namely Hitler, Stalin,Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping, and Meiji government (see the first article of their constitution. It was an alternative axiom). Do you think it sounds like religion? Surprisingly you’re right. Human rights is religion by its definition according to Harari, the author of Sapience, which I think is very interesting and provocative.
I am against the death penalty, but if I had to choose between terrible chemical injections and your neck getting instantly snapped, I'd go for former. From Japan Times: _The method of hanging is the long drop, causing instant unconsciousness and rapid death by neck fracture._
I am baffled by people who think life in prison is less of a punishment than the death penalty. If given the choice I would choose to die over spending life in prison.
@@PakkaponPhongtawee don't be fooled, they have similar rates of crime, but the only ones being prosecuted are the ones the detectives are almost 100% sure. There are many other petty crimes and SAs (Chikan) that are not prosecuted.
@@PrograError"they have similar rates of crime" yeah and they view way more things as crime 😅 Meaning most crimes in Japan would not be crime in us, meaning there less serious crime. They also don't have school shootings and guns all over the place. A child can safely go shopping there an not fear being attack. Think that speaks for itself. Smiler rates, not same crime
@@PrograError It isn't about being fooled, criome in Japan is very different to the rest of the world. On the whole an individual is very safe in Japan.
@@MajinOthinus The whole justice process is in strong need of reform pretty much everywhere. Ideally I’d like that sorted out to minimise false convictions at any level. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely my country will ever reform its system the way it should, let alone bring back the death penalty.
@@MajinOthinusexcept there’s a minuscule amount of cases in which evidence is doctored and an overwhelming majority of false convictions are due to pure incompetence.
Read the account about Richard Sorge, a German soviet spy in Japan prior to WW2, caught and executed in Japan. He was sentenced to death and was surprised one day by his jailers who escorted to the rope. "An Instance of Treason - Ozaki Hotsumi & The Sorge Spy Ring" by Chalmers Johnson.
Norway didn't have a death penalty but they allowed it only for Quisling and some other traitors in the aftermath of WW2. It wasn't fully abolished until 1979 where it was technically legal for the military to execute people in some cases, but the last execution was in 1948 in the before mentioned aftermath of WW2. I think the conversation for allowing it again reopened to potentially execute Anders Behring Breivik, a man who massacred 77 people and detonated a bomb in the Norwegian capital in 2011. The fact that he is still alive is wild, but im also slightly glad that our state didn't abandon their morals for the sake of one man. (Only slightly glad, im pretty upset for the most part ofc. Very upset he lives but kinda glad our state kept their integrity, if that makes sense)
@@FredrikSkievan it would be unreasonable to punish a criminal using a law introduced after the crime because of the precedent that would set. Because the death penalty was not on the books when he did it it's not an option, but if there is public support you can introduce it for the next guy. Medical assistance in dieing for prisoners is also a thing that's been requested more and more as it gets rolled out in more and more countries. I support MAID and for 99% of prisoners who might want this the main reason they would be denied is spite. Unless they did something really fucked up and a case can be made of it being in the public interest for them to suffer more there really is no good reason to deny them. There's maybe a 1% wrongly convicted who would opt for that because they can't take it but even in that case it entails a reduction of that persons suffering
@@Bobo-ox7fj It might as well be legislation already, it's absolutely ridiculous to expect a society to pay taxes to support the continued existence of a man whose only contribution to it was the destruction of innocent lives
I can't believe the death penalty in Japan is so cruel that an innocent man could be on death row for decades, not knowing when they will be executed, not including the innocents already killed.
This video is misleading because it only focuses on the "developed" world. AKA, a very small portion of the world. It tries to make it sound like the death penalty is wrong, even though it is the defacto for most countries. But for some reason the video ONLY blames the US and Japan.
My understanding is that they do have a Jury in Japan. Except that the jury just assumes the prosecutor did their due diligence and did not make any mistakes and got the correct personal
@@rons4620 It's not really a jury system in a sense that would be recognisable to common law systems. There's a panel of judges and a few of them happen to not be professionals. But lawyers have no capacity to challenge or scrutinise them, nor are they excluded from elements of the proceedings that could be prejudicial. It's just a judge panel that is typical of civil law systems, except they outsource a few of the members to the public.
One thing to notice is that some people in the US do not support death penalty because it is cheaper to keep someone in prison their entire life than to have a death penalty (legal fees) this also prevents executing someone who was innocent afterward so it's also a better decision who don't care about the convicted one.
Why are you talking about “black lynchings” in regard to the U.S. death penalty? The U.S. death penalty is not “intimately connected with its history of racial discrimination and enslavement”. If that were the case, then everything would be connected to it and no state in the U.S. would still have the death penalty. That statement smacks of critical race theory, where everything is about race in the U.S. What have they done to our youth in our classrooms? Why would you even bring that up? Isn’t that leading to the notion that if you are for the death penalty in the U.S., then you are racist…if they are “intimately connected” as you say? It’s a legitimate question with a legitimate concern. This isn’t just about your statement even if it were partially true, it’s your entire approach to it. EVERY human being on this entire planet has an ancestors who were slaves, every single one of us. Even isolated tribes that have “never” been in contact with other human beings? Yes, of course. The entire world’s history of slavery is another topic all together. That leaves me with only two questions: 1. How is the death penalty in the U.S. “intimately connected” with “it’s history of racial discrimination and enslavement”? 2. How is the execution carried out? You came close, but never explained it. You skipped it after the three switch description. Thanks, now I almost know.
well, he says there is a trapdoor connected to one of the three switches, and earlier in the video, there is an image with the trapdoor open... as for everything else, you're absolutely correct, people really like to point at maps and say "There is an increase in the popularity of [blank] in the Bible Belt, that means it's an evil practice only done by racists!!"
Maybe not nationwide, but the death penalty (well the prison system in general) in specifically the Deep South was absolutely connected to racial discrimination. These are the same places that kept slavery going for like 80 years after the Civil War.
- "The first recorded execution in the new colonies was that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608. Kendall was executed for being a spy for Spain." - "In 1619, the first captive Africans were brought via Dutch slave ship to Point Comfort (today Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia), thirty miles downstream from Jamestown, Virginia. They had been kidnapped by Portuguese slave traders." The first execution in America was carried out on a white man 11 years before the first African slaves had even arrived on North American soil. How droll. Thank you for commenting, it was bothering me too.
Germany's death penalty is a bit more complex: East Germany reintroduced death penalty in 1959, and removed it again in 1987. West Germany however never reintroduced it. Btw, even though death penalty was forbidden on a national level in West Germany, the state of Hesse kept it in its laws until 2018. It was basically a paper tiger in the last 7 or so decades.
Bringing back the death penalty has consistent majority public support even in places like the UK that have abolished it. (P.s. that graph you showed is inaccurate, the UK didn't completly surrender its sovereign right to use the death penalty until the Cameron govt refused to renew the UKs death penalty exception with the ECtHR - so the death penalty was abolished in totality in the 2010s not in 1965 when it stopped being used for murder. After the abolition for murder it was retained for treason and arson in a royal dockyard, as well as some military offences.)
Also it was retained for murder beyond 1965 in one part of the UK, namely Northern Ireland. The last man sentenced to death there was in 1971. But it was commuted to imprisonment.
@@Asher-w6p Most likely After Effects, all motion graphics in this vid are quite easily made in AF with a little bit of learning and practice, none of Hoog's graphics are complex, but they're nice and minimalistic nonetheless
It's important to mention that while hanging appears more gruesome, lethal injection is just as inhuman. It's a combination of three chemicals : one that paralyzes, one that puts the victim into a coma, and one that kills. The one that puts you into a coma can and has failed. Imagine if you could feel yourself dying, but could not react, as all of your muscles are paralyzed. All death sentences are inhuman.
You seem to have made a false affirmation at 3:38 when you said that Portugal's New State Regime had death penalty, well it did not, because the death penalty was abolished in 1852 for political crimes, 1867 for civil crimes and 1911 for military crimes. Love your videos btw. Keep it up!
I think it’s more nuanced than both our sides. The 1976 constitution formally abolished the death penalty entirely. In military context it was still permitted, although sparingly I imagine, in the 1900s
I am from Scotland and I thought that Indonesia still had the de@th penalty for drůg traffic-king. In the uk I remember headlines ‘Brit granny sitting in Bali waiting for final day…’ I could be wrong …
It's still there, but rarely applied. Australians still get caught for stupidity there. Schapelle Corby was probably our most prominent prisoner over there for drugs.
I have seen some people stating that the OECD nations South Korea still allows for capital punishment and Singapore but this is misleading. Singapore declined to join the OECD and since President Kim Dae-jung there has been a abolitionist legal doctrine
Seriously?! Death penalty linked to slavery?? Only someone that flunked history and turned to blind ideology would even think that. But, I am confident that someday you'll grow up too. And yes, feel free to lash back as long as it's based on facts.
Mr Hoog ik you probs won’t see this comment but pls can you do a video on how Oman has kept its traditional Arabic architecture where its Gulf neighbours are building higher and higher skyscrapers
It’s due to the philosophy of Sultan Qaboos, who my father met with during the Gulf War. Omanis also don’t vibe on the same wavelength as the gulf Arabs either so there isn’t a synchronicity in developmental pattern we see with the others, even though Oman has the Finacial capability. Omanis care more about heritage, tradition, and its preservation. Because of this, Oman will outlast and outlive the Gulf.
If someone you loved was murdered, I think you would be more understanding of the death penalty and why it should exist. Fortunately most people never have to find out.
1: The United Kingdom was created in with the Acts of Union in 1801, 194 years after the creation of the Jamestown Colony. 2: Public Humiliation was a common punishment in Medieval England, but it was used as a means of Racial Control after British Colonists began importing african slaves.
@@ImperatorZor And? Thanks for correcting on the UK, but the meaning can still be inferred and so the point still stands. The practice preceded the Americas and the taking of slaves from Africa. So what's the relevance of mentioning race in this context when the topic is largely focused on a racially homogeneous country like Japan? The genetic fallacy doesn't benefit the topic.
@@ImperatorZor lmao sure the modern UK didn't exist back then but England has been around for thousands of years using the death penalty. It has nothing to do with race.
He did it again when he was talking about “lethal execution doesn’t lower crime because the states with them still have high crime” lmao like yeah, I wonder what the south has a lot of that the rest of the country doesn’t
Corrections/nuances:
Portugal did abolish the death penalty in the 1800s. It also abolished the death penalty in 1976 because it had been reinstated for military purposes during WW1. Deathpenaltyinfo.org recognizes 1976 as the formal date. The point of that segment, and I will be clearer about assumptions/definitions on screen in future videos for sure so that’s my bad, is that a new constitution after the fall of an authoritarian leader has been associated with the formal abolition of the death penalty. That happened after Salazar with the new constitution. Japan also signed a new constitution, but with no formal abolition.
Researchers found (source in description) that lynching predicts modern executions, but when you account for slavery - lynching does not, but slavery does. There’s a lot of variance in these studies, and the level that injustices in the past have an impact on today is not something I, a “professional” youtuber in a bedroom, am going to be able to explain well. Adverbs like “intimately” do not help because that’s vague and unclear writing. I do think this can all be true (would like to hear other’s thoughts) while it also still being important to point out that this makes the US different from Japan.
As of right now, I don’t know how I stand on the death penalty. My instinctual feeling when someone kills 31 people by burning them alive like I mention at the end is yes. As it would be if my family was brutally murdered by someone. That being said, the non zero probability, especially in Japan with its high prosecution rate, makes the risk quite uncomfortable that I start thinking - better not. But then I can think that, that makes me some moral saint - that I would not take that chance with the death penalty - but I and the majority of the world would take that chance with locking someone in a cell for extended periods of time. So I’m not sure my morality is consistent. Long story short, I don’t really know.
Discrimination in capital punishment was explicitly written in many states’ laws during slavery. Black people - (whether slaves or not) - faced the death penalty for crimes that were not even be eligible for death if committed by a white person.
Why did you pronounce _Aum Shinrikyo_ like A.U.M. Shinrikyo??
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@@cyberherbalist the US consitution is an improved copy of the English bill of right 1688 which the brits will either deny the exist of or hate it
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@@maxmeier532 You are given the luxury of focusing 100% on that uncertainty and nothing else that could resemble joy, hope or fulfilment
Oh, the poor, misunderstood criminals! How utterly tragic that they are deprived of the luxury of a handy calendar reminder for their impending execution. Who could bear the heartache of such an oversight? Truly, Japanese society’s blatant disregard for their need to meticulously plan such significant life events is beyond comprehension. It’s not as if these convicts took the effort to book an appointment with their victims, thoughtfully ensuring they were fully aware of the exact date and time they’d be brutally slaughtered. "Excuse me, would next Tuesday at 3 PM suit you for your untimely demise?"
Really, imagine the shock and horror these CONVICTS must endure, facing their end without a day marked in their otherwise busy calendars. How inhumane to rob them of the opportunity to prepare like it's a dentist appointment. Truly, it's society that has failed them, not the other way around.
Japanese laws, shockingly, don't bend over backwards to pamper and coddle criminals the way Western legal systems do. Imagine that, a legal system that prioritizes actual justice over the comfort of those who have wreaked havoc on innocent lives. Heaven forbid! What a monstrous concept, that the focus should be on the victims who will never see another tomorrow, rather than on the sensitivities of those who brought about their untimely end.
So, spare me the melodramatic sob stories and crocodile tears. Don’t project your self-righteous, virtue-signaling nonsense onto other countries that don’t coddle convicts. If only you could channel all this empathetic energy into supporting victims rather than lionizing those who wronged them. But no, please, do go on about the grave injustice of not catering to the meticulous schedules of those who have caused unimaginable suffering. After all, it’s far more important to maintain the pristine image of moral superiority, isn’t it?
@@Zagirus This doesn't take into account the innocents executed or the sheer cost on the system compared to keeping them in prison for life.
@@jax5683
You’re arguing against the death penalty, but here I was pointing out that if we have it, convicts shouldn’t get a scheduled execution date. After all, why should they know when it’s coming? Their victims certainly didn’t get a courteous heads-up.
The design is very human
Lmao
I don't get the evil part, where is the evil design?
@@万恶共匪毒害中华the fact that they don’t have a date. That’s evil af
@@Samira_m84Aww how dare they not give a date? Man has some busy schedules. Can you even imagine just going about your day and suddenly it's your day? Can't be the victims of the perpetrator. Definitely!
@@Samira_m84 none of us have a date, how evil right?
In Singapore and Malaysia, there is still death penalty for drug trafficking.
imagine getting jailed, executed, then cremated and back to jailed
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@@Racks47 achievement unlocked: how did we get here?
every day
ugh, mondays
I've got a lot of ambivalence against this. This dude sentenced 7 people to a brutal death, I am sure they didn't see it coming, either
Actually, those 7 people probably expected a peaceful death at an old age, surrounded by their children and grandchildren. They probably didn't live in fear of a violent death, knowing that it could happen any day.
From time immemorial societies have removed those they know are a serious danger, it's truly astonishing how many people today can be deluded into wanting to keep them around in any capacity. How many lives would be saved if judges were tried as accessories to any crimes the killers they let out commit in the future?
@aisdxcarr as someone who can read, I can assure you they didn't say that.
@@aisdxcarr Are you silly?
Stop wasting time talking about unimportant things (the one that k'd 7) and focus on what matters: the innocent who are wrongly convicted. Japan's "justice system" is more biased and corrupt than the yank one, with MANY innocents wrongly convicted and imprisoned. If you ignorantly believe "innocent people are never convicted", then you aren't qualified to talk about this.
I don't feel any sympathy for kato
Same
@@nicolasbascunan4013wow, taking into account human rights, how awful! 🤡
Cool, man. Thanks for sharing.
@clicheguevara5282 absolutely ironic pfp
@@nicolasbascunan4013 I think it's clickbait 1. and 2. Who wouldn't feel bad for the other innocent dudes lol
Utah, Idaho, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Oklahoma still allow the firing squad as a backup method over lethal injection. The most recent execution by firing squad was 2010 in Utah.
if i got executed... i think this would be my first choice but not after like 10 years
Yeah, but that is SO messy. "Hey Bob, they did another one. You better grab the BIG mop and bucket for this one."
That's one benefit of being from Mississippi.
@@BrilliantDesignOnline 😂🤔 They could always use an all tile room. Then you can just hose it all down. You'd have to use pistol calibers though. That way it doesn't overpenetrate and then damage the room.
@@BrilliantDesignOnline power washer
what the heck is that death rooom contraption, multiple rooms, a spinning religion panel, a moral dilemma button, feels like an escape room straight out of zero escape
They have the delayed multi buttons because executions are seen as an unclean act that would taint the soul so to keep from making someone become unclean spiritually they make it ambiguous as to who did it
I assume that the religious statue panel didn't literally rotate, it was probably just that way for making the animation look nice.
A staff member would probably place the appropriate figure in the altar earlier that morning based on what religion was on file for the prisoner. To change the statue, they'd probably remove the statue and get the other statue from a storage cupboard.
@@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74 It is a common feature in a lot of execution methods. Firings often had a blank or dummy round handed out amid the live cartridges so that each shooter could think that might not have fired a fatal shot.
@@andrewweitzman4006 yes but this is especially important for Shinto as becoming unclean is a pretty bad thing to become societal. It wasnt until the meji restoration that the caste system involving Shinto spirituality was actually being reformed away. Executioners, grave diggers, butchers, fishermen, and trash collectors, other essentials, beggars criminals, and the descendants of those people were burakumin and werent consider people even into the modern era, but the government has been trying to undo those harmful traditions since the meji restoration, but traditionalist do make that pretty difficult.
@@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74Ah, like an electronic firing squad. How grim.
Calling it "evil" is subjective and based on your Western standards
@stephenchisadza4975 the modern west has no standards...
“Western standards” 🤣
Found the weeb
@@DoflamingoDonxiquote it is
"Calling it 'justice' is subjective and based on your Eastern standards."
See how that works? It's _subjective_ for you too, my guy....
I missed the part where this is evil...
in russia they put the death penelty on hold changed it to life (until death ) in prison , and you dont want to be there . the day they changed the law many prisoners commited
suicide .they would have rather been hanged than serve life in prison.
Evil design eh? Their victims didn’t know the day they were going to die, and were not given any time to make out a will, eat a snack and pray.
Their ends came with extreme suffering as in the case of the 36 in the fire. The killer however is given a swift and sudden end.
You still want me to feel guilty that the US and Japan use the death penalty?
There’s almost always some case that can make anyone feel good in the government killing someone for them. Point is, that system has to have delimitations and rules, and even pretending you can make every lawmaker or voter agree on where to draw the lines, you’d still end up with misshaps, only misshaps in imprisonment can be worked around way better than the finality of death. And the way that the japanese system handles the quirks in implementation, only makes those misshaps seem worse (like the wrongfully accused guy who spent 30+ years).
It’s like people see bad being punished and then stop thinking…
@@buriedghostlady To be clear, the whole affair will always be distasteful. I have never understood, nor would I be a part of those people that stand outside the gates of these execution sites, holding signs and cheering when the sentence is carried out.
Isn't the point you are raising more of an issue with the justice system of these countries rather that the death penalty? How are they getting these wrong and imprisoning innocent people in the first place?
@@TheSaturnV But the justice system and the death penalty are not two disconnected things? I think that's that person's point. Like the death penalty is simply a tool for the justice system, a tool that can be misused.
@@TheSaturnV Reminds me of reports I read about fake news about rapes happening in Manipur, NE India, which incensed people and prompted them to encourage revenge rape, and leading to riots. Which I can imagine will be used as justification by some governments for censorship
That story about the arson attack is so bizarre too - it happened at Kyoto Animation’s main studio (A Silent Voice, Haruhi Suzumiya, K-ON!) and took place because the perpetrator believed his submission to an animation contest they ran plagiarized his work (it obviously didn’t).
Absolutely wild loss
i was just thinking about what a horrible way to die this death penalty is when he said about people being burned to death, makes you think twice, although i still think death penalty should be abolished - innocent people have been executed. i'm an animator too by the way, retired.
@@AlexanderBogdanow What the fuck is this comment.
@@AlexanderBogdanow tmi bro wtf?
60% through the video. Still waiting for the evil design.
Update: watched the whole video. The "evil design" was never explained. Only a basic death penalty system.
7:19 Lethal injections also have the highest rate of botchery out of all the methods. The idea of being conscious and in in excruciating pain whilst unable to move or give away any signals of my suffering is something truly terrifying.
What in the lethal injection would cause pain? All that happens is serum K+ increases until myocardial repolarization is no longer possible. I haven't truly researched the topic, but I'm curious to know where your fear comes from?
@@cam609lee there is an interesting last week tonight on lethal injections that you should check out
@cam609lee
The part that kills you is painful, and if the parts that put you to sleep and numb you aren't enough, or lacking in general, you end up in agony but unable to move as the muscle relaxants tend to work.
@@cam609lee Lethal Injection is a multi-step process where they first sedate the prisoner, then give them a numbing serum, and then finally the lethal injection. The issue arises when either of the previous two are not done properly. This can leave the victim aware of what is happening, and the lethal injection is not painless. There is at least one account from a survivor of a botched injection. He said it was as if liquid fire was being put into his veins and was being chocked at the same time.
@@cam609lee The whole issue with lethal injections is that companies aren't willing to sell the desired chemicals to produce the injection and that many medical practitioners aren't willing to be the ones to administer it. As such, improvisation takes place, substitute ingredients are found that don't tick all of the requirements, personal without all the needed skills gets put in charge.
rare sighting: Hoog doesn't talk about how great the Netherlands is
@SaojChess The Netherlands is so cool though
Less so after the recent government...
So he can talk about how not great Japan is.
@@MartijnPenningsoh no the majority of the people didnt want what you wanted.
@@Arendvdvenk like the majority wanted a president which they didnt choose.
My city centre flat is about the same size except I have to pay £650 per month for it.
多くの日本人はこの死刑制度が外国から批判される対象なのは知っていますが変える必要はないと思っています。私もその一人です。本当にこの問題を改めさせたいのであれば日本人に伝わるように日本語字幕をつけるのはどうでしょうか？良い議論になると思いますよ。
@@小峠-t9b 外国人の意見ですがチャンネル主がただ英語圏の人々に日本の死刑に関しての情報を提供するためにこの動画を作ったのではないかと。。
@@flxible431 そうなんですね。日本では他国の問題に触れる事はあまりないので不思議な感覚です。
ナショナリズムに私が慣れてないのか…利益を感じて不快になってしまいました笑
@flxible431 I agree but I feel like more diverse opinions in the comments would be a benefit. Being from the US, I am more interested in what Japanese people think.
@@小峠-t9b
これがうまく翻訳されれば幸いです。
日本とは異なり、多くの西洋諸国は統一された国家アイデンティティを持っていません。これは、通常 2 つの理由で、自分の理想、価値観、システムを他者に対して常に批判することにつながります。
1: 彼らのやり方が何らかの点で優れており、他の人は変更する必要があることを検証します。
2: 彼らのやり方は間違っており、より投影された国に近づくために変更する必要があることを証明します
このビデオに対する私の返信: そうですね、簡単な解決策があります。鼻を清潔に保ち、日本でも他の場所でも死刑囚になるようなことはしないでください。
The 3 button system is actually intriguing and fascinating.
as typical for japan, their method/ system is very well thought out and considered mulitple facets.
TOOL!
no
I thought they were going to have the prisoner push the button himself
You basically answered your own question about Japan's homicide rate being low. Japan is almost entirely Japanese. That is why the homicide rate and violent crime rate is much lower. Making a country more "diverse" changes that. There is more conflict (from all sides) and more crime. That's just a fact.
That is not a fact, that is just a racist assumption asshole
How is this a problem with the penalty and not the judicial system? Seems like the examples you're giving are ones where innocent people were sentenced. That's pretty flawed.
This could have been 3 minutes long
Why is this considered brutal?
The amount of people who do not understand why this is evil is saddening. Did people not hear how easy it is to be falsely convicted it is from the video? Did they not hear about the people falsely put on death's row? The cop who withheld an innocent's person alibi for years, condemning him to a tortorous existence and ever-present threat of death? Do people not understand the concept of false imprisonment? Do people not understand how important it is to humanely treat criminals? I'm always reminded of the following quote whith situations like this:
“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In my experience, it is one of the most important ones to understand. Most important to learn and practice.
Bruh, problems in judicial and police systems are another matter.
They should be considered in light of a DP policy in a given place to be sure, but the system here looked at, in isolation is NOT inherently brutal nor evil.
@@theobell2002 Exactly.
When I first saw the title, I thought they were still made to do Seppuku...
That practice was for if you are being permitted to keep your honor intact.
That’s only a ritual for noblemen and samurai. It’d be considered distasteful if a commoner or a non-warrior/soldier did it.
the idea is that you arent made to do that, or at least pretend you arent made lmao
@@lufsolitaire5351 what?! so i didn't have to do it? fml
@@croozerdog Bro, I've already started. Why didn't you say sooner
Government incompetence and corruption is the best argument against the death penalty. Too many innocent people are exonerated after decades in prison or facing and fighting the death penalty in court (which actually makes the death penalty more expensive for taxpayers than keeping someone alive and in prison for the rest of their lives)
@@Tortilla.Reform I think that the moral conflict is the best argument against the death penalty. It also the question who decides who has to die?
@@DIVERSERNAME The moral conflict is subjective because it isn’t a moral conflict for many other people
@@DIVERSERNAMEthere is no moral conflict. The system, not people decides who dies, absolves all of the guilt of killing the inmate, as it was he who did it to himself.
Boom done, argument over. Honestly the “moral argument” is the worst one to make especially in our immoral society lmao, just tell people it costs money and they’ll hop on board with you.
We are supposed to feel sympathy?
@@j.burgess4459 that's what I'm thinking too
For the falsely condemned, yes. For the guilty, no.
I say if you don't want to meet an evil death, don't be evil
As of no one has ever been falsely imprisoned.
@@mikepalmer1971 To get to the death row in Japan (and pretty much anywhere else) you have to do something so big and messed up the chances you got there by accident are pretty much non-existent.
@@El_Loto_Azúl there were 2 separate examples in the video of that happening. And in the US, according to death penalty info, for every 8.3 executions, one person is exonerated afterwards
@@El_Loto_Azúl not really...
@@pepiggy114 Can you name any more than those 2 examples?
the idea that "two of the kill switches dont work" is probably a lie. it's probably a 3-button AND switch that only trips when all three of the buttons are depressed, and the story of two of them not working is circulated to give people an out, emotionally. "my button probably didn't kill him"
That makes much more sense than this narrator’s rubbish about an inbuilt delay in the system.
Capital punishment is still practised in South Korea 🇰🇷 and China 🇨🇳
@@Buzzard061 I see why China
Why mention China?
@@diogorodrigues747China is not a developed country? Well you haven't been paying attention have you?
@@diogorodrigues747they only do that so they don’t have to hold themselves up to the standards of a “developed” country. By all metrics they are. It’s just more advantageous to them to say they are still a “developing” country.
@@deanpd3402 of course they are a developed country
I imagine the reason the death penalty was abolished in those countries with authoritarian regimes was because they massively abused it; so when the regime was ousted, the people were never willing to take that risk again. Of course this ousting never fully happened in Japan, and you could argue the country is to this day quite authoritarian in many ways.
The question is more complicated in countries that have always been fairly democratic: there, I feel, it becomes more a question of conservatives against progressives; which is shown nicely in the US too.
The risk of it being abused is always too high. Never give a state too much power, ever.
You're right at least in Spain. Most sentenced to death in its final years were political activists and that kind of unjustified stuff.
@@Marconius6 Yeah, although here in the States, it's a bit more complicated. While it is largely a conservative vs liberal thing, it isn't a universal one, as there are a lot of conservatives, generally the ones with libertarian tendencies who do oppose the death penalty on principle, plus other conservatives who want it narrowed, even if not in favor of abolition. Our conservatism has always had and does have a significant skepticism toward government power so the lines on the right often get blurred on this issue. It did use to be politically toxic to oppose it(big reason why Bush, Sr. won in '88) but the country is much more libertarian on criminal justice than it used to be and that's shown on the right too.
@@SupweIt says on the internet that the last people sentenced to death in Spain were part of terrorist bands that killed two policemen
Is it possible that the low crime rate in Japan is DUE to the fear of death penalty? And the high shooting and stabbing rates in USA and UK respectively are DUE to the lack of Death penalty? What are your thoughts on that?
"evil design" lol, it is not meant to be pleasant.
it's clear that this guy is a far left winger.
begs the question, would YOU rather know, or not now, the day you are going to die?
I would totally know because that gives me a bit of reassurance and would help me not panic when I know the time for me to die is in just a few hours
There is no "begging" involved - you are using the phrase wrong. You mean it "raises the question".
@@G5rry Are you kidding me? People use this as an expression. This has has nothing to do with "erm, you're wrong". Are you a linguist? Do you know the history of commonly used expressions? If you talked to people, you would probably hear people use this exact same expression. Neither of these are wrong. You are not an authority on commonly used phrases. Once you show me your linguistic degree and not some self proclaimed idea in a comment section, maybe i can start listening to you.
@@starrynight_reverie he's right, though, regardless of whether you like that. From Wikipedia: 'Colloquial misuse of the phrase "begs the question" also occurs with an entirely dissimilar sense in place of "prompts a question" or "raises a question".'
know. uncertainty is hell. if you dont know then every day is like your last month or so if you do.
Controversial opinion: I don't think the Death Penalty is bad, its just been done badly, especially with our most recent examples being in the US, where everything that can be done wrong, will be done wrong.
"Americans will always do the right thing, after exhausting every other option."
There is no way to do it well, though, unless you consider the possibility of the executed actually having been innocent as acceptable, you're gonna have to put in so many checks that keeping someone imprisoned for life ends up way cheaper (with the added benefit of still being able to release them if you made a mistake). This is ALREADY the case in the us, death penalty DOES cost more, and STILL its not enough checks cuz innocent ppl have been executed there before. It just doesn't work
You don't think it's bad because you have figured in your head you will never be wrongly convicted.
i am not against the idea of the death penalty for the most heinous crimes
I am more concerned with Japans juridical system and their unusually high conviction rate than I am concerned with them having death penalty.
Theoretically the tax payers should not be burdened with the life support of people that can never safely be let into society. My only problem with capital punishment is a distrust in the juridical system and potential tyranny that can exploit it, so from this perspective I would rather see an overhaul of Japans archaic court system than a complete abandonment of capital punishment.
$180 to execute a person is crazy
All they did was push a button
Its only weird how easily they can be sentenced
The dead cannot reoffend.
Bro thought this was deep.
@@H33t3Speaks A miscarriage of justice can't be corrected either.
How many bent cops/judges have there been.
the US did the kill switch guilt thing too but it was a firing squad and only like one or two have real rounds vs blanks so nobody has to know they killed someone - fun fact thats STILL legal in some states
They even turned the death penalty into a game show
色々な意見があると思うが。無実の被害者の人権を弄んだ者に人権なんて必要ないと思う。
Exactly.
Facts
I do understand you emotionally, but I’d rather you paid attention to the differences between generosity and human rights. The former is random feeling whereas the latter is a systematic theory that depends on deductive reasoning. The most typical example of deductive reasoning is math. If x and y are lines which are parallel, then they don’t cross. Here, you can’t ask why because it is something called an axiom. In deductive logic, you can prove many properties of lines or triangles but the absence of crossing points. This is true to human rights, too. Axiom; you have rights which can’t be alienated from you. See? Perhaps, you may think like this; then let’s change the axiom! Good news. It’s already tried by some enthusiastic people, namely Hitler, Stalin,Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping, and Meiji government (see the first article of their constitution. It was an alternative axiom).
Do you think it sounds like religion? Surprisingly you’re right. Human rights is religion by its definition according to Harari, the author of Sapience, which I think is very interesting and provocative.
I am against the death penalty, but if I had to choose between terrible chemical injections and your neck getting instantly snapped, I'd go for former. From Japan Times:
_The method of hanging is the long drop, causing instant unconsciousness and rapid death by neck fracture._
evil?
RUclips censorship and pre-emptive self-censoring is ridiculous. This guy bleeped out *THEIR OWN* 1:48
Good on Japan for protecting it's culture. You don't have to visit the country if you are uncomfortable with another nations cultural Norms.
You do not cite what Tomijiro Kato was convicted of . . .
@@blenderbanana he says he killed seven people. I think your point still stands, even stronger.
I am baffled by people who think life in prison is less of a punishment than the death penalty. If given the choice I would choose to die over spending life in prison.
depends on the country tbh... some countries prisons are worse than others...
@@bzipoli I am not concerned with the opinions of prisoners.
@@ASMORPHEUS1979 I'm not concerned with the opinions of fascists.
@@ASMORPHEUS1979 Watch Jacob Geller's video on the death penalty. You may change your mind.
I am baffled by your onesidedness
It's the kyoani arson attack damn it still feels recent to me.
i teared up when he mentioned it..
it's 5 years already. but this show how Japan is so safe that there is no new death sentence since 2019.
@@PakkaponPhongtawee don't be fooled, they have similar rates of crime, but the only ones being prosecuted are the ones the detectives are almost 100% sure. There are many other petty crimes and SAs (Chikan) that are not prosecuted.
@@PrograError"they have similar rates of crime" yeah and they view way more things as crime 😅
Meaning most crimes in Japan would not be crime in us, meaning there less serious crime.
They also don't have school shootings and guns all over the place.
A child can safely go shopping there an not fear being attack.
Think that speaks for itself.
Smiler rates, not same crime
@@PrograError It isn't about being fooled, criome in Japan is very different to the rest of the world. On the whole an individual is very safe in Japan.
The death penalty should be legal, but only sentenced in cases of extremely overwhelming evidence that is irrefutable.
So what counts as overwhelming evidence? You can doctor just about anything with enough resources, corruption or connections.
@@MajinOthinus The whole justice process is in strong need of reform pretty much everywhere. Ideally I’d like that sorted out to minimise false convictions at any level. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely my country will ever reform its system the way it should, let alone bring back the death penalty.
@@AlexanderDiviFilius
Like for Muilenberg and Calhoun?
Yea
@@MajinOthinusexcept there’s a minuscule amount of cases in which evidence is doctored and an overwhelming majority of false convictions are due to pure incompetence.
1:15 The most Japanese prison cell ever
Read the account about Richard Sorge, a German soviet spy in Japan prior to WW2, caught and executed in Japan. He was sentenced to death and was surprised one day by his jailers who escorted to the rope. "An Instance of Treason - Ozaki Hotsumi & The Sorge Spy Ring" by Chalmers Johnson.
Sad. The inmates who waited 30 -40 years.... could you imagine being innocent?
Norway didn't have a death penalty but they allowed it only for Quisling and some other traitors in the aftermath of WW2. It wasn't fully abolished until 1979 where it was technically legal for the military to execute people in some cases, but the last execution was in 1948 in the before mentioned aftermath of WW2. I think the conversation for allowing it again reopened to potentially execute Anders Behring Breivik, a man who massacred 77 people and detonated a bomb in the Norwegian capital in 2011. The fact that he is still alive is wild, but im also slightly glad that our state didn't abandon their morals for the sake of one man.
(Only slightly glad, im pretty upset for the most part ofc. Very upset he lives but kinda glad our state kept their integrity, if that makes sense)
They still gave him a 3 room appartement. I believe a 2m x 2m room with no windows and a concrete bed would have been enough.
@@FredrikSkievan it would be unreasonable to punish a criminal using a law introduced after the crime because of the precedent that would set.
Because the death penalty was not on the books when he did it it's not an option, but if there is public support you can introduce it for the next guy.
Medical assistance in dieing for prisoners is also a thing that's been requested more and more as it gets rolled out in more and more countries.
I support MAID and for 99% of prisoners who might want this the main reason they would be denied is spite.
Unless they did something really fucked up and a case can be made of it being in the public interest for them to suffer more there really is no good reason to deny them.
There's maybe a 1% wrongly convicted who would opt for that because they can't take it but even in that case it entails a reduction of that persons suffering
@@Bobo-ox7fj It might as well be legislation already, it's absolutely ridiculous to expect a society to pay taxes to support the continued existence of a man whose only contribution to it was the destruction of innocent lives
I understand you.
@@Bobo-ox7fjYeah, I feel like that’s a can of worms we don’t want to open.
The *BASED* Design of Japan's Death Penalty
Das rite!
Lot of edgelords in comments
@@johnanon658 Das Reich
@@DoflamingoDonxiquote ok pedo
How about the victims?
Rare footage of hoog not glazing Japan for 20 minutes straight
@@rileymerson8781 He has never glazed Japan
You mean Amsterdam
damnnnn even hoog himself came in to prove you wrong
@@hoogyoutube Japsterdam
The fact that you put a sponsor at the end of this type of video is disturbing.
Why? It's an informative video, not one promoting the death penalty. Should educational content not be monetized?
I can't believe the death penalty in Japan is so cruel that an innocent man could be on death row for decades, not knowing when they will be executed, not including the innocents already killed.
People are actually defending it in the comments and acting like they're bastions of morality
"The doors to any service or provider in connection with the Continental are now closed to you. I am so sorry. Your life is now forfeit."
this happens in the States as well
@@jackal0p at least you're less likely to be innocent in the states
@@DeathNight77 source?!?!?
This video is misleading because it only focuses on the "developed" world. AKA, a very small portion of the world. It tries to make it sound like the death penalty is wrong, even though it is the defacto for most countries. But for some reason the video ONLY blames the US and Japan.
It's like when westerners bring up 'the international Community' when they actually mean u.s., e.u, and the occupied tigers in east asia
@@ChasBeretta exactly!
99.6% 'GUILTY' rate in japanese courts too. (no jury system)
My understanding is that they do have a Jury in Japan. Except that the jury just assumes the prosecutor did their due diligence and did not make any mistakes and got the correct personal
@@noneofyourbizness if you watch the video you’ll see the system explained.
@@rons4620 It's not really a jury system in a sense that would be recognisable to common law systems. There's a panel of judges and a few of them happen to not be professionals. But lawyers have no capacity to challenge or scrutinise them, nor are they excluded from elements of the proceedings that could be prejudicial. It's just a judge panel that is typical of civil law systems, except they outsource a few of the members to the public.
US federal prosecutors have a 95% conviction rate
It often surprises me how bloodthirsty people are about this topic.
One thing to notice is that some people in the US do not support death penalty because it is cheaper to keep someone in prison their entire life than to have a death penalty (legal fees) this also prevents executing someone who was innocent afterward so it's also a better decision who don't care about the convicted one.
Needed too press pause to let that sink in 2:11.
8:58 - 9:02... This was the Kyoto Animation Arson Attack... whch, I amm sure, still affect the anime community worldwide to this day.
I've heard that a pure nitrogen environment is painless and quick and so is a hypobaric (high altitude) chamber for that purpose.
in "beyond a reasonable doubt" it should be life in prison. But when it is "no doubt, homie was caught mid massacre"............well
Why are you talking about “black lynchings” in regard to the U.S. death penalty? The U.S. death penalty is not “intimately connected with its history of racial discrimination and enslavement”. If that were the case, then everything would be connected to it and no state in the U.S. would still have the death penalty. That statement smacks of critical race theory, where everything is about race in the U.S. What have they done to our youth in our classrooms? Why would you even bring that up? Isn’t that leading to the notion that if you are for the death penalty in the U.S., then you are racist…if they are “intimately connected” as you say?
It’s a legitimate question with a legitimate concern. This isn’t just about your statement even if it were partially true, it’s your entire approach to it. EVERY human being on this entire planet has an ancestors who were slaves, every single one of us. Even isolated tribes that have “never” been in contact with other human beings? Yes, of course. The entire world’s history of slavery is another topic all together.
That leaves me with only two questions:
1. How is the death penalty in the U.S. “intimately connected” with “it’s history of racial discrimination and enslavement”?
2. How is the execution carried out? You came close, but never explained it. You skipped it after the three switch description. Thanks, now I almost know.
well, he says there is a trapdoor connected to one of the three switches, and earlier in the video, there is an image with the trapdoor open...
as for everything else, you're absolutely correct, people really like to point at maps and say "There is an increase in the popularity of [blank] in the Bible Belt, that means it's an evil practice only done by racists!!"
Thanks for your comment. I was getting irritated with the video 🫤
Maybe not nationwide, but the death penalty (well the prison system in general) in specifically the Deep South was absolutely connected to racial discrimination. These are the same places that kept slavery going for like 80 years after the Civil War.
- "The first recorded execution in the new colonies was that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608. Kendall was executed for being a spy for Spain."
- "In 1619, the first captive Africans were brought via Dutch slave ship to Point Comfort (today Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia), thirty miles downstream from Jamestown, Virginia. They had been kidnapped by Portuguese slave traders."
The first execution in America was carried out on a white man 11 years before the first African slaves had even arrived on North American soil. How droll. Thank you for commenting, it was bothering me too.
Evil how?
Evil?!? Is it opposite day or something?
Yes...I mean no.
Germany's death penalty is a bit more complex: East Germany reintroduced death penalty in 1959, and removed it again in 1987. West Germany however never reintroduced it.
Btw, even though death penalty was forbidden on a national level in West Germany, the state of Hesse kept it in its laws until 2018. It was basically a paper tiger in the last 7 or so decades.
Imagine being the last person ever to receive a death penalty.
That was a thought-provoking video. But I question the title, "Evil Design..." Where is the evil?
Was the police officer that kept the man in prison for over 30 years given the death penalty?
Did he even get in trouble?
Bringing back the death penalty has consistent majority public support even in places like the UK that have abolished it. (P.s. that graph you showed is inaccurate, the UK didn't completly surrender its sovereign right to use the death penalty until the Cameron govt refused to renew the UKs death penalty exception with the ECtHR - so the death penalty was abolished in totality in the 2010s not in 1965 when it stopped being used for murder. After the abolition for murder it was retained for treason and arson in a royal dockyard, as well as some military offences.)
No, it was Blair in 1998 who signed and ratified Protocol 13 to the ECHR, which prohibits the death penalty under all circumstances.
@amritlohia8240 maybe I'm wrong on that, maybe it was Blair rather than Cameron, but it definelty wasn't 1965 as the graph shows.
Also it was retained for murder beyond 1965 in one part of the UK, namely Northern Ireland. The last man sentenced to death there was in 1971. But it was commuted to imprisonment.
Either on this Channel or the Fern channel, you should sell a DaVinci resolve editing course.
he clearly use more than davinci resolve and the davinci resolve part is probably the one that doesn't need a course.
@@Feuillo true lots of it is made in blender clearly but I would like to know how he makes some of the 2d animation sequences
@@Asher-w6p Most likely After Effects, all motion graphics in this vid are quite easily made in AF with a little bit of learning and practice, none of Hoog's graphics are complex, but they're nice and minimalistic nonetheless
It's important to mention that while hanging appears more gruesome, lethal injection is just as inhuman. It's a combination of three chemicals : one that paralyzes, one that puts the victim into a coma, and one that kills. The one that puts you into a coma can and has failed.
Imagine if you could feel yourself dying, but could not react, as all of your muscles are paralyzed.
All death sentences are inhuman.
You seem to have made a false affirmation at 3:38 when you said that Portugal's New State Regime had death penalty, well it did not, because the death penalty was abolished in 1852 for political crimes, 1867 for civil crimes and 1911 for military crimes.
Love your videos btw. Keep it up!
I think it’s more nuanced than both our sides. The 1976 constitution formally abolished the death penalty entirely. In military context it was still permitted, although sparingly I imagine, in the 1900s
In the meditation-praying room there is the image of bodhisattva Kannon (compassion and mercy), not Buddha.
I am from Scotland and I thought that Indonesia still had the de@th penalty for drůg traffic-king. In the uk I remember headlines ‘Brit granny sitting in Bali waiting for final day…’
I could be wrong …
It's still there, but rarely applied. Australians still get caught for stupidity there. Schapelle Corby was probably our most prominent prisoner over there for drugs.
I have seen some people stating that the OECD nations South Korea still allows for capital punishment and Singapore but this is misleading. Singapore declined to join the OECD and since President Kim Dae-jung there has been a abolitionist legal doctrine
I don't see it evil at all
I mean, despite capital punishment not being practiced in other OECD countries support still ranges from 40-60%.
Remember Saint Junko
Learning that a simple majority is enough to convict in a capital case makes it even more upsetting that her killers got off
Her case breaks my heart so much. I can never listen to anyone that covers it until today 💔
who is Saint Junko?
@@lioraja9951 better you don't know, your life won't be better for knowing the details
@@lioraja9951 Junko Furuta.
The subject of you video ended so many lives. He forfeited his life in return. They did the families a disservice by leaving him alive so long.
Did you just ignore the innocent people who got released part?
@@VluggeJapie59 Do you know how many convicted criminals who are released, reoffend, and take more lives?
@@sterling557 What does that have to do with innocent people who get falsely imprisonned?
@@mastershooter64what does false convictions have to do with killing a murderer?
I don't believe the Death Penalty is immoral, Actions have consequences.
What should be the focus is how to avoid wrongful convictions. The system can never be perfect but it can be improved
Wait until you learn about consequences other than being murdered 🙀
@@spe3dy744 like
@@rowlandvictor4893if they were letting out more people they’d have a bigger crime problem, not really worth it. What they have works.
@@spe3dy744 No one is being murdered if they're convicted of a crime that results in CP. Learn what words mean.
how is it an evil design if it gets rid of literal evil?
death penalty was still technically on the books in the british military when was serving in the early 90s. Dont know if thats still the case
That's metal AF. Rename this video to The AWESOME Design of Japan's Death Penalty
Seriously?! Death penalty linked to slavery?? Only someone that flunked history and turned to blind ideology would even think that. But, I am confident that someday you'll grow up too. And yes, feel free to lash back as long as it's based on facts.
@@VegabondMusashi If people don't want to be questioned they should know what they're talking about.
Do a video on how the Japanese court/law works
Mr Hoog ik you probs won’t see this comment but pls can you do a video on how Oman has kept its traditional Arabic architecture where its Gulf neighbours are building higher and higher skyscrapers
It’s due to the philosophy of Sultan Qaboos, who my father met with during the Gulf War. Omanis also don’t vibe on the same wavelength as the gulf Arabs either so there isn’t a synchronicity in developmental pattern we see with the others, even though Oman has the Finacial capability. Omanis care more about heritage, tradition, and its preservation. Because of this, Oman will outlast and outlive the Gulf.
This is very inaccurate.
lol I absolutely knew this would posit "DATS WAISISSSS"
and, sure enough, it did.
If someone you loved was murdered, I think you would be more understanding of the death penalty and why it should exist. Fortunately most people never have to find out.
This comment needs more upvotes. Idealists must see the world for what it truly is
Retribution is not the purpose of the justice system.
%100
@@MajinOthinus Retribution is the objective of the judicial system, there is a reason why a thief does not receive the same punishment as a murderer.
Race and the death penalty don't seem to be linked given that it was prolific in the UK prior to the colonising of the Americas.
1: The United Kingdom was created in with the Acts of Union in 1801, 194 years after the creation of the Jamestown Colony.
2: Public Humiliation was a common punishment in Medieval England, but it was used as a means of Racial Control after British Colonists began importing african slaves.
@@ImperatorZor
And? Thanks for correcting on the UK, but the meaning can still be inferred and so the point still stands.
The practice preceded the Americas and the taking of slaves from Africa. So what's the relevance of mentioning race in this context when the topic is largely focused on a racially homogeneous country like Japan?
The genetic fallacy doesn't benefit the topic.
@@ImperatorZor lmao sure the modern UK didn't exist back then but England has been around for thousands of years using the death penalty. It has nothing to do with race.
3:30 HE DID THE MAP™️, IT'S THE MAP™️
He did it again when he was talking about “lethal execution doesn’t lower crime because the states with them still have high crime” lmao like yeah, I wonder what the south has a lot of that the rest of the country doesn’t
"Japan is strange"
No, the rest of the developed world is...
no
I don't see how this is evil.