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| And They're Hangin' Shoko Asahara In The Morning |
| 2006-06-05 |
| Defense lawyers filed an appeal Monday for a former cult leader sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway gassing that killed 12 people, a news report said. Shoko Asahara was convicted in 2004 and sentenced to hang for masterminding the attack, in which members of the doomsday cult released deadly sarin gas on trains converging on the city's government district. Defense lawyers filed an appeal with the Supreme Court after the Tokyo High Court threw out an appeal of Asahara's death sentence, the Kyodo News agency reported. His lawyers argued that their client suffers from pathological mental stress caused by confinement and was unfit for trial. The lawyers could not be reached late Monday to confirm the report. I gather the Japanese have an interesting way of carrying out an execution. They create a 1-year window in which you will be killed. Then without warning, on a random day during that year, they take you from your cell and execute you, without notification to anyone until you are dead. It should also be noted that successful criminal appeals in Japan are as rare "as hen's teeth." |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #12 Thanks Moose. |
| Posted by: RD 2006-06-05 22:43 |
| #11 Oh, and for a truly amazing view of prison life, I highly recommend the astonishing movie "Story of Ricky". It is a world-class badfilm, that is not *just* a prison movie, but also a monster movie, and a martial arts movie. You even get the sickening feeling in spots that they were trying to be funny. Nonsensically ultraviolent, the hero uses a martial arts philosophy that basically says: "That which kills you, makes you stronger." The movie is magically improved by inebriation and makes a great male-only party movie, punctuated with rude commentary. The bad english dubbing is improved by the bad english subtitles that say very different things from the dubbing. Joe Bob says "Check it out." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-06-05 19:11 |
| #10 RD: Here is one description I've found. It differs just a little from how I'd heard it described in the level of detail. http://tinyurl.com/jy3ov "...The procedure for execution in Japan is opaque and carried out in secrect. Executions are performed not at prisons, but at detention centers. Those on death row are never sent to prison, but remain in the detention center until an appeal is won or their execution is carried out. The method used is hanging, a procedure which has been abandoned in many places because it can result in beheading. Executions are usually carried out on Friday mornings, and convicts are not given advance notification. Surviving any Friday past nine a.m. guarantees another week of life. The names of the executed are never announced publicly, and the act of execution may not be acknowledged until well after the event. Even family and attorneys are not informed of the deaths firsthand - they learn of the executions when the detention center requests that a prisoner's possessions or ashes be picked up..." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-06-05 19:02 |
| #9 Before or after the execution, Captain? ;) |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2006-06-05 18:37 |
| #8 was this guy well hung? |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-06-05 18:10 |
| #7 So he won't be dead in the morning? Damn |
| Posted by: john 2006-06-05 18:08 |
| #6 The Japanese tend to be a thorough, methodical people ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-06-05 14:32 |
| #5 execute you, without notification to anyone until you are dead. Executed to DEATH??? What a way to go!!!!!!! |
| Posted by: ARMYGUY 2006-06-05 13:43 |
| #4 You mean he didn't have "pathological mental stress" before he went to jail? |
| Posted by: WarHorse6 2006-06-05 13:02 |
| #3 I gather the Japanese have an interesting way of carrying out an execution. They create a 1-year window in which you will be killed. Then without warning, on a random day during that year, they take you from your cell and execute you, without notification to anyone until you are dead. It should also be noted that successful criminal appeals in Japan are as rare "as hen's teeth." heh, that should keep the smug arrogant bastard aware of each moment and in the NOW 24/7/365. awww never a moments rest.. How unfair.. Call Amnesty International... Call the JCLU.... It's inhumane, It's cruel and unusual, It doesn't BEHOVE us, We don't have the RIGHT to kill a human being! bla bla bla * Moose just askin, is there a resource or document link to this peculiarity in Japanese justice? |
| Posted by: RD 2006-06-05 11:34 |
| #2 "a shirutsu deropu ando a sudedenu sutopu"....lol |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-06-05 11:26 |
| #1 What's Japanese for "a short drop and a sudden stop?" |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-06-05 11:15 |