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    Quote Originally Posted by blackadder View Post
    Which doesn't mean mistakes are made, incompetence and corruption employed.

    So that 90 executions, not having much effect on the murder rate, is it? It could just be that the DP is not a deterrent and only an act of revenge!
    The argument that the death penalty is a deterrent is a complete falsehood.

    It assumes that people who murdered were not deterred by the death penalty. Obviously this is counting the wrong group.

    The group to count would be those that did not murder because they were fearful of the death penalty. In order to determine that one would need to poll everyone in a population daily to determine their desire to kill vs. fear of death penalty. In other words count those deterred vs undeterred and this is the correct statistic. Naturally, those who are against the death penalty do not want to count this way because it would undermine their argument.

    Quote Originally Posted by blackadder View Post
    And no doubt most Germans supported Hitler's actions against the Jews, etc, etc,. After all he changed the laws so everything was legal!
    The NSDAP did not ever have the majority of votes. The German political landscape was so fractured at the time that the NSDAP was the largest single party polled.

    -Jon

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    Japan hangs 2 death-row inmates, 10th, 11th executions under Abe gov't

    Japan hanged two death-row inmates Friday in the 10th and 11th executions since the December 2012 launch of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's current government, Justice Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said.

    The two were Mitsuhiro Kobayashi, 56, who was convicted of killing five people in a 2001 attack on an office of moneylender Takefuji Corp., and Tsutomu Takamizawa, 59, a former gangster convicted of killing three.

    Tanigaki told a press conference that a justice minister needs to abide by the law, saying Japan maintains the death penalty in answer to a question about the U.N. Commission on Human Rights which urged Japan in July to review its capital punishment system.

    Tanigaki said he is required to perform his duties as justice minister, responding to a question why he issued the execution order only a few days before an expected Cabinet reshuffle scheduled for Wednesday.

    He has previously stated that the public supports capital punishment and there is no need to review the death penalty system.

    The number of death-row inmates executed on the orders of one justice minister is now the second largest since 1993, when Japan resumed executions, following 13 who were hanged under orders from Kunio Hatoyama, justice minister from 2007 to 2008.

    Kobayashi, a former taxi driver executed at the Sendai detention house in northeastern Japan, was sentenced to death for robbery and murder after setting fire to a Takefuji office in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, in May 2001 when his demand for a loan was rejected.

    Takefuji later went under in 2010 and its moneylending business was taken over by Nihon Hoshou Co.

    The Aomori District Court sentenced Kobayashi to death in February 2003, a ruling upheld by the Sendai High Court in February 2004 and by the Supreme Court in March 2007.

    Kobayashi, who denied any intention to kill, filed pleas for a retrial three times seeking the application of robbery resulting in death, not murder, but his pleas were rejected. His conviction stood as of Aug. 6 this year.

    Takamizawa, who was executed at the Tokyo detention house, was sentenced to death for murdering the head of a rival gang in Annaka, Gunma Prefecture, and two others between 2001 and 2005.

    In October 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for Takamizawa, who was head of a gang affiliated with Japan's biggest yakuza group, the Yamaguchi-gumi.

    http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/n...h-executions-u

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