longweekend58 wrote on Jul 6
th, 2013 at 12:45pm:
not at all. I would probably be slightly harder than average. You seem to think because a person opposes the DP on principle that makes them soft on crime. Not at all. I am in favour of options that actually work and it has been shown categorically that the DP does not work and in fact slightly increases violent crime. This is one of the reasons judges and other law offices generally dont support the DP because they KNOW it doesnt work,
I see you bullsh1t meter needs recalibrating.
But if you ONLY select the data the suits your biased outlook that would tend to happen now wouldn't it?
But I love the lazy that ONLY reference the US and ignore the rest of the planet when trying to argue their case; shows how weak their case is even before you rip it apart
So how do you explain this using your absolute belief in this particular lie?
Hope you don't mind wiki, you're not worth much effort in countering your feeble arguments
Capital punishment is legal in Japan. The only crimes for which capital punishment is statutory are murder and treason. Between 1946 and 1993, Japanese courts sentenced 766 people to death (including a small number from China, South Korea and Indonesia), 608 of whom were executed. The death penalty is ordinarily imposed in cases of multiple murders involving aggravating factors.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Japan
and it experienced 1.1 murder per 100,000 population, compared with 3.9 for West Germany, 1.03 for England and Wales, and 8.7 for the United States that same year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Japan#Crimes
TOKYO —
The number of confirmed criminal offenses officially recorded in Japan in 2012 was half that of 2002, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
According to the NPA, the number of offenses recorded in 2002 was the highest on record at around 2.85 million, Fuji TV reported. In 2012, the NPA said 1,382,154 confirmed criminal cases were recorded, a 6.7% decrease from 2011.
The agency said that there was a general downward trend in the official logging of offenses and that the number of
confirmed murders and attempted murders—1,030—was the lowest on record since World War II.http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/crime-stats-down-across-japan-in-2012-says-npa