Three Japanese prisoners executed

[Johnson Brown]

I have new found respect for Japan.
I don't care if they hang them, shoot them, stone them or anything else just get rid of these murders.

[Dexter]

Prisoners should be executed only after they have been in jail for 20 years (at least) because the wait for your death is much more painful than just die.

[Ambiorix]

Prisoners should be executed only after they have been in jail for 20 years (at least) because the wait for your death is much more painful than just die.

I would like to execute them, if you give the command...

but isn't this a bit morbid for a religious forum?

[newman]

Death would be preferable to being held prisoner by the japanese.

Those bamboo manicures aren't much fun.

[Ambiorix]

Prisoners should be executed only after they have been in jail for 20 years (at least) because the wait for your death is much more painful than just die.

I would like to execute them, if you give the command...

but isn't this a bit morbid for a religious forum?

I think it makes sense.
If someone is getting the lethal injection, its more of a punishment to know that they will spend a long time in prison with no possibility of escape and one day, they will be executed.
Then instead of being all cynical (as some killers are, even when they will be executed) they have a long time knowing that they are living in crappy conditions only to end up killed for their crimes. They will have all that time to sit in prison and think about what they did. Its more painful than an actual painful execution.

You'd be surprised how positive people can be in a prison.

[MassuhDGoodName]

Actually, Torah Jewish Law is different than the various legal systems of modern Western countries.

The Talmudic Sages made many comments and elaborations on adjudication for serious crimes such as murder.

Among them:  They declared that the commonly spoken Biblical admonition of "An Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth", which is an inaccurate translation from the Hebrew original which states "For an Eye...Eye"..."For a Tooth...Tooth" must be considered a demand for monetary and/or other compensation to one suffering from the intentional or unintentional harming of another's person or property...so that should someone blind another, they must pay and compensate to an amount which a court would consider adequate to repay such a disabling injury, etc...

For the crime of murder:  The Sages declare that Torah demands an eyewitness to the actual event must accuse the perpetrator in court.  For example, if some passerby heard screams from a house, and from the house ran a man holding a bloody knife, then the one fleeing the scene may not be charged with murder, because no eyewitness saw the actual murder...they only saw someone fleeing on foot, who may or may not have committed any crime...they might have been the first to encounter a murder victim, and in panic picked up the murder weapon and run hysterically to get help, etc...merely "circumstantial evidence" can not incriminate for taking another's life in Jewish Law.

In addition, should a person be charged with murder and convicted by the testimony of eyewitness, the eyewitness must not only witness the murderer be stoned to death, but must cast the first stone at the condemned!  This law was to prevent frivolous charges...making such a condemnation so heinous that the accuser must be personally willing to execute the condemned.

[Tina Greco - Melbourne]

Death would be preferable to being held prisoner by the japanese.

Those bamboo manicures aren't much fun.

Exactly I would opt for death, then to be alive around them thats for sure.

[JTFFan]

Death would be preferable to being held prisoner by the japanese.

Those bamboo manicures aren't much fun.

Exactly I would opt for death, then to be alive around them thats for sure.

Yes, same here